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title: “He worried and worked as much over the daubs on his cheeks as some… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: “He worried and worked as much over the daubs on his cheeks as some very civilized girls would over a naughty curl. Who acts: daub. 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 7

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“He worried and worked as much over the daubs on his cheeks as some very civilized girls would over a naughty curl.

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**Who acts:** daub · **What happens:** worry, work · **To what, where:** daubs

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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 (daub), 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:pg73136:13:7
# text = “He worried and worked as much over the daubs on his cheeks as some very civilized girls would over a naughty curl.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	worried	worry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	daubs	daub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	civilized	civilized	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	curl	curl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **worry** *in a quote* | past | daub |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **work** *in a quote* | past | daub *not said here* |  |  | the daubs on daub's cheeks |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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