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title: Has it ever been your good fortune to see a vast tract of land cover… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Has it ever been your good fortune to see a vast tract of land covered with these gorgeous wild tiger-lilies? 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 39

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Has it ever been your good fortune to see a vast tract of land covered with these gorgeous wild tiger-lilies?

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**What happens:** have, be, see, cover · **To what, where:** moon, good fortune, vast tract, land

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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: 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:pg73136:15:39
# text = Has it ever been your good fortune to see a vast tract of land covered with these gorgeous wild tiger-lilies?
1	Has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tract	tract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
17	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
18	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
19	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  | moon |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | participle |  | your good fortune |  |  | ever | your *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | a vast tract of land |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tract=Stimulus |
| 4 | **cover** | participle |  | land *not said here* |  |  |  | with gorgeous wild tiger lilies  these | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lily=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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