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title: Where two or more animals are pictured on one pole it shows the marr… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, sentence 18

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Where two or more animals are pictured on one pole it shows the marriage or other union of different bands to which the family belongs.

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**Who acts:** it, family · **What happens:** picture, show, belong · **To what, where:** two animals, one pole, marriage

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, family), 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:pg73136:14:18
# text = Where two or more animals are pictured on one pole it shows the marriage or other union of different bands to which the family belongs.
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
5	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	pictured	picture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	union	union	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | present · passive |  | two animals |  | one pole |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **show** | present | it | the marriage or other union of different bands |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent marriage=Recipient |
| 3 | **belong** | present | the family |  |  |  |  | to different bands | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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