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title: The Indian who lives in a teepee does not know the use of soap and i… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Indian who lives in a teepee does not know the use of soap and is not anxious for a bath. Who acts: Indian, teepee. 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 pragmatics of every cla
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 48

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The Indian who lives in a teepee does not know the use of soap and is not anxious for a bath.

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**Who acts:** Indian, teepee · **What happens:** live, not know, not be, use · **To what, where:** use, soap

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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 (Indian, teepee), 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:pg73136:17:48
# text = The Indian who lives in a teepee does not know the use of soap and is not anxious for a bath.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | the Indian |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | a teepee | the use of soap |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer use=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | the Indian *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a bath; anxious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **use** |  |  | soap |  |  |  |  | nom use «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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