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title: A certain military surgeon who has been among them and has keen, dar… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: A certain military surgeon who has been among them and has keen, dark eyes and gray hair is always called Gray Eagle. Who acts: certain military surgeon. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, with its dependency tree
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, sentence 32

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A certain military surgeon who has been among them and has keen, dark eyes and gray hair is always called Gray Eagle.

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**Who acts:** certain military surgeon · **What happens:** have, be, call · **To what, where:** keen dark eyes, certain military surgeon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (certain military surgeon), 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:pg73136:14:32
# text = A certain military surgeon who has been among them and has keen, dark eyes and gray hair is always called Gray Eagle.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	surgeon	surgeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
8	among	among	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	keen	keen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	Gray	Gray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	amod	_	_
23	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a certain military surgeon |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | among names *= name* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | a certain military surgeon *not said here* | keen dark eyes and gray hair |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 4 | **call** | present · passive |  | a certain military surgeon |  |  |  | Gray Eagle *xcomp*; always *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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