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title: Perhaps some daughter of the Dakotas was the cause of all this patie… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps some daughter of the Dakotas was the cause of all this patient study of the art of dressing; but I cannot dream of Hiawatha ever belittling himself to take so long a time with feathers and paint.” Who acts: daughter, I. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Ca
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 14

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Perhaps some daughter of the Dakotas was the cause of all this patient study of the art of dressing; but I cannot dream of Hiawatha ever belittling himself to take so long a time with feathers and paint.”

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**Who acts:** daughter, I · **What happens:** be, not dream, belittle, take, study · **To what, where:** cause, Hiawatha, art

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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 (daughter, I), 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:pg73136:13:14
# text = Perhaps some daughter of the Dakotas was the cause of all this patient study of the art of dressing; but I cannot dream of Hiawatha ever belittling himself to take so long a time with feathers and paint.”
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Dakotas	Dakotas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	patient	patient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	dressing	dressing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	dream	dream	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Hiawatha	Hiawatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
29	belittling	belittle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
30	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	long	long	ADJ	RB	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | some daughter of the Dakotas | the cause |  |  |  | of all patient study of the art of dressing | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **dream** | can | I |  |  |  |  | of Hiawatha | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **belittle** | gerund | I *not said here* | Hiawatha |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  | time | with feathers and paint | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **study** |  |  | the art of dressing |  |  |  |  | nom study «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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