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title: O Moon of Red Lilies, how beautiful you make our western prairies! — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: O Moon of Red Lilies, how beautiful you make our western prairies! Who acts: Moon. 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 40

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O Moon of Red Lilies, how beautiful you make our western prairies!

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**Who acts:** Moon · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** western prairies

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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 (Moon), 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:pg73136:15:40
# text = O Moon of Red Lilies, how beautiful you make our western prairies!
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Lilies	Lily	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	prairies	prairie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Moon of Red Lilies | our western prairies |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prairie=Product |

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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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