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title: The rank prairie grass is usually easy for them to get, but sometime… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The rank prairie grass is usually easy for them to get, but sometimes it is burned off. Who acts: rank prairie grass, 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 every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 29

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The rank prairie grass is usually easy for them to get, but sometimes it is burned off.

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**Who acts:** rank prairie grass, babies · **What happens:** be, get, burn off · **To what, where:** grass

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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 (rank prairie grass, 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:pg73136:13:29
# text = The rank prairie grass is usually easy for them to get, but sometimes it is burned off.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	rank	rank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	prairie	prairie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the rank prairie grass |  |  |  |  | easy, usually *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | babies *= baby* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **burn off** | present · passive |  | grass |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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