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title: “Such a self-satisfied air did he put on when paint, feather, and bl… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: “Such a self-satisfied air did he put on when paint, feather, and blanket had been arranged to his liking! Who acts: satisfied air. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian At Home, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 13

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“Such a self-satisfied air did he put on when paint, feather, and blanket had been arranged to his liking!

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**Who acts:** satisfied air · **What happens:** put on, arrange · **To what, where:** paint, blanket

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian At Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (satisfied air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73136:13:13
# text = “Such a self-satisfied air did he put on when paint, feather, and blanket had been arranged to his liking!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	7	det:predet	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
13	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	liking	liking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put on** *in a quote* | past · do-support | such satisfied air | paint and feather |  |  |  | air *nsubj* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent paint=Goal |
| 2 | **arrange** *in a quote* | past · perfect · passive |  | blanket |  |  |  | to blanket's liking | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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