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title: Indian customs and manners are taught to their children with just as… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Indian customs and manners are taught to their children with just as much earnestness as white people teach their little ones. Who acts: white 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 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 56

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Indian customs and manners are taught to their children with just as much earnestness as white people teach their little ones.

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**Who acts:** white people · **What happens:** teach · **To what, where:** Indian customs, children, little ones

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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 (white 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:pg73136:17:56
# text = Indian customs and manners are taught to their children with just as much earnestness as white people teach their little ones.
1	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	conj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	earnestness	earnestness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	teach	teach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | Indian customs and manners | customs's children |  |  | with much earnestness | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to child=Recipient |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | white people | customs's little ones |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient |

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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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