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title: The luscious wild strawberries are more delicate in flavor than any… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The luscious wild strawberries are more delicate in flavor than any grown in the gardens. Who acts: luscious wild strawberries, any. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 36

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The luscious wild strawberries are more delicate in flavor than any grown in the gardens.

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**Who acts:** luscious wild strawberries, any · **What happens:** be, grow · **To what, where:** flavor, gardens

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (luscious wild strawberries, any), 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:pg73136:15:36
# text = The luscious wild strawberries are more delicate in flavor than any grown in the gardens.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	luscious	luscious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	flavor	flavor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
12	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	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 luscious wild strawberries |  |  | flavor |  | delicate *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | participle | any |  |  | the gardens |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location |

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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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