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title: After the death of one of their tribe, his house, or hogan, is pulle… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: After the death of one of their tribe, his house, or hogan, is pulled down; if this is not done, every one who enters it fears danger. Who acts: one, death. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, with its dependency
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 52

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After the death of one of their tribe, his house, or hogan, is pulled down; if this is not done, every one who enters it fears danger.

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**Who acts:** one, death · **What happens:** pull down, not do, enter, fear · **To what, where:** this, danger

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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 (one, death), 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:pg73136:17:52
# text = After the death of one of their tribe, his house, or hogan, is pulled down; if this is not done, every one who enters it fears danger.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hogan	hogan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	enters	enter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	fears	fear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
32	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull down** | present · passive |  |  |  |  | after the death of one of Navajos's tribe | every one *parataxis* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V» |
| 2 | **not** **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **enter** | present | every one |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fear** | present | death | danger |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer danger=Stimulus |

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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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