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title: This plant, sometimes called the Spanish bayonet, from its sharp-poi… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: This plant, sometimes called the Spanish bayonet, from its sharp-pointed leaves, grows to a great size on the plains. Who acts: plant. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 37

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This plant, sometimes called the Spanish bayonet, from its sharp-pointed leaves, grows to a great size on the plains.

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**Who acts:** plant · **What happens:** call, grow · **To what, where:** Spanish bayonet, pointed leaves, plains · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (plant), 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:pg73136:17:37
# text = This plant, sometimes called the Spanish bayonet, from its sharp-pointed leaves, grows to a great size on the plains.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bayonet	bayonet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
12	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	pointed	pointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle | this plant *not said here* | the Spanish bayonet |  | plant's pointed leaves |  | sometimes *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from leaf=Source |
| 2 | **grow** | present | this plant |  |  | the plains |  | to a great size | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on plain=Location |

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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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