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title: They had heard marvelous stories of the silver, gold, and jewels own… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: They had heard marvelous stories of the silver, gold, and jewels owned by the red people living north of Mexico; but the Pueblos were brave as well as wise, and the history of that Spanish expedition is sad reading. Who acts: towns, red people, Pueblos, history. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 10

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They had heard marvelous stories of the silver, gold, and jewels owned by the red people living north of Mexico; but the Pueblos were brave as well as wise, and the history of that Spanish expedition is sad reading.

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**Who acts:** towns, red people, Pueblos, history · **What happens:** hear, own, live, be · **To what, where:** marvelous stories, jewels, sad reading

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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 (towns, red people, Pueblos, history), 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:pg73136:17:10
# text = They had heard marvelous stories of the silver, gold, and jewels owned by the red people living north of Mexico; but the Pueblos were brave as well as wise, and the history of that Spanish expedition is sad reading.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
14	owned	own	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:agent	_	_
19	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	north	north	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Pueblos	Pueblo	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	32	cc	_	_
30	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	fixed	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
32	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
39	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	expedition	expedition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · perfect | towns *= town* | marvelous stories of the silver and gold |  |  |  | jewels *parataxis* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 2 | **own** | participle |  | jewels *not said here* |  |  |  | the red people *obl:agent* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **live** | gerund | the red people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | north *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the Pueblos |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | the Pueblos *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | present | the history of that Spanish expedition | sad reading |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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