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title: The war chiefs have a very noble look when they come out with their… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The war chiefs have a very noble look when they come out with their feather war bonnets reaching from the crowns of their heads down to their feet. Who acts: war chiefs, noble, chiefs, feather war bonnets. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indi
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 18

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The war chiefs have a very noble look when they come out with their feather war bonnets reaching from the crowns of their heads down to their feet.

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**Who acts:** war chiefs, noble, chiefs, feather war bonnets · **What happens:** have, look, come out, reach, crown · **To what, where:** crowns, heads

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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 (war chiefs, noble, chiefs, feather war bonnets), 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:pg73136:13:18
# text = The war chiefs have a very noble look when they come out with their feather war bonnets reaching from the crowns of their heads down to their feet.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	bonnets	bonnet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
18	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the war chiefs |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | present | a noble |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come out** | present | chiefs *= chief* |  |  |  |  | with chiefs's feather war bonnets; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **reach** | gerund | chiefs's feather war bonnets *not said here* |  |  | the crowns of chiefs's heads |  | down *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **crown** |  |  | chiefs's heads |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication 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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