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title: Old Chief Sleepy-eye had a bright mind, but his eyelids did not serv… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Old Chief Sleepy-eye had a bright mind, but his eyelids did not serve him well; hence his name. Who acts: Chief Sleepy eye, eyelids, eye. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, sentence 23

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Old Chief Sleepy-eye had a bright mind, but his eyelids did not serve him well; hence his name.

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**Who acts:** Chief Sleepy eye, eyelids, eye · **What happens:** have, not serve, name · **To what, where:** bright mind, eye

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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 (Chief Sleepy eye, eyelids, eye), 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:pg73136:14:23
# text = Old Chief Sleepy-eye had a bright mind, but his eyelids did not serve him well; hence his name.
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	Sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Chief Sleepy eye | a bright mind |  |  |  | eye's name *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **serve** | past · do-support | eye's eyelids | eye |  |  |  | well *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |
| 3 | **name** |  | eye |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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