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title: They are a tall, dignified, intelligent race, and resent the visits… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: They are a tall, dignified, intelligent race, and resent the visits of white people unless it is shown that the visitor is a friend, for they have been driven to these Everglades by reason of conquering whites. Who acts: Indians, tall dignified intelligent race, visitor, Everglades. A sentence of «W
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes, sentence 7

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They are a tall, dignified, intelligent race, and resent the visits of white people unless it is shown that the visitor is a friend, for they have been driven to these Everglades by reason of conquering whites.

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**Who acts:** Indians, tall dignified intelligent race, visitor, Everglades, reason · **What happens:** be, resent, show, drive, conquer, visit · **To what, where:** tall dignified intelligent race, visits, Many, friend, Indians, whites

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians, tall dignified intelligent race, visitor, Everglades), 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:pg73136:16:7
# text = They are a tall, dignified, intelligent race, and resent the visits of white people unless it is shown that the visitor is a friend, for they have been driven to these Everglades by reason of conquering whites.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
4	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	dignified	dignified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	resent	resent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	visitor	visitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	Everglades	Everglade	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	33	obl:agent	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
39	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	conquering	conquer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	acl	_	_
41	whites	white	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Indians *= indian* | a tall dignified intelligent race |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **resent** | infinitive | a tall dignified intelligent race *not said here* | the visits of white people |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer visit=Stimulus |
| 3 | **show** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | Many |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the visitor | a friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **drive** | present · perfect · passive | this Everglades | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  | by reason | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme by reason=Destination |
| 6 | **conquer** | gerund | reason *not said here* | whites |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent white=Patient |
| 7 | **visit** |  |  | white people |  |  |  |  | nom visit «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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