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title: Some of these whites have returned and have written books about the… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of these whites have returned and have written books about the people of whose home life they have learned so much. Who acts: people. 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 prag
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 50

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Some of these whites have returned and have written books about the people of whose home life they have learned so much.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** return, write, learn · **To what, where:** Some, books, home life

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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 (people), 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:pg73136:17:50
# text = Some of these whites have returned and have written books about the people of whose home life they have learned so much.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	whites	white	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
10	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	much	much	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | present · perfect · passive |  | Some of this whites |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **write** | present · perfect |  | books |  |  |  | about the people of the people of the people's home life's home life | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent book=Recipient about people=Topic |
| 3 | **learn** | present · perfect | people | the people of the people of home life's home life's home life *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Topic |

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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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