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title: He is not petted nor fed like the Arabian horse, but is just as nece… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: He is not petted nor fed like the Arabian horse, but is just as necessary to his master’s happiness. 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 27

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He is not petted nor fed like the Arabian horse, but is just as necessary to his master’s happiness.

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**What happens:** not pet, feed, be · **To what, where:** pony

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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: 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:pg73136:13:27
# text = He is not petted nor fed like the Arabian horse, but is just as necessary to his master’s happiness.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	petted	pet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	6	cc	_	_
6	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	happiness	happiness	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 | **not** **pet** | present · passive |  | pony |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **feed** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | like the Arabian horse | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to pony's master's happiness; necessary *property* | tree rules |

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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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