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title: The native Indians of the southwestern part of the United States wer… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The native Indians of the southwestern part of the United States were much more civilized when discovered than the wandering tribes in other parts of the country. Who acts: native Indians. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indians Who Live in B
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 1

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The native Indians of the southwestern part of the United States were much more civilized when discovered than the wandering tribes in other parts of the country.

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**Who acts:** native Indians · **What happens:** be, discover, wonder

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (native Indians), 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:pg73136:17:1
# text = The native Indians of the southwestern part of the United States were much more civilized when discovered than the wandering tribes in other parts of the country.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	southwestern	southwestern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	much	much	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	civilized	civilized	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
17	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the native Indians of the southwestern part of the United States |  |  |  |  | civilized *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **discover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | than the wandering tribes in other parts of the country | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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