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title: Their bearing is dignified; their faces are earnest and solemn; and… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Their bearing is dignified; their faces are earnest and solemn; and each one treads the earth as a king. Who acts: faces, one. 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 19

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Their bearing is dignified; their faces are earnest and solemn; and each one treads the earth as a king.

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**Who acts:** faces, one · **What happens:** dignify, be, tread · **To what, where:** bearing, earth

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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 (faces, one), 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:pg73136:13:19
# text = Their bearing is dignified; their faces are earnest and solemn; and each one treads the earth as a king.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bearing	bearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	dignified	dignify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	earnest	earn	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	parataxis	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	treads	tread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dignify** | present · passive |  | chiefs's bearing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | chiefs's faces |  |  |  |  | earn *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | chiefs's faces *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tread** | present | each one | the earth |  |  |  | as a king | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location earth=Theme |

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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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