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title: Many of the babies have a decidedly Japanese look and are attractive… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Many of the babies have a decidedly Japanese look and are attractive little creatures, as babies are apt to be. Who acts: Many babies, babies. 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 ever
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 22

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Many of the babies have a decidedly Japanese look and are attractive little creatures, as babies are apt to be.

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**Who acts:** Many babies, babies · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** Japanese look, attractive little creatures

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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 (Many babies, babies), 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:pg73136:13:22
# text = Many of the babies have a decidedly Japanese look and are attractive little creatures, as babies are apt to be.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	decidedly	decidedly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	attractive	attractive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	apt	apt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the Many babies | a Japanese look |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Many babies *not said here* | attractive little creatures |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | babies |  |  |  |  | apt *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | to-infinitive | babies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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