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title: These bahos are always planted two or three times a year by the wate… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: These bahos are always planted two or three times a year by the water ways, to do reverence to the water god who shows himself in the lightning. Who acts: water ways, water god. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Moki Indians, with its dependenc
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Moki Indians, sentence 17

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These bahos are always planted two or three times a year by the water ways, to do reverence to the water god who shows himself in the lightning.

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**Who acts:** water ways, water god · **What happens:** plant, do, show · **To what, where:** bahos, reverence, prayer

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Moki Indians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water ways, water god), 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:pg73136:18:17
# text = These bahos are always planted two or three times a year by the water ways, to do reverence to the water god who shows himself in the lightning.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	bahos	baho	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	_
9	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	reverence	reverence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plant** | present · passive | the water ways | this bahos |  |  | time | always *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive |  | reverence |  |  |  | to the water god | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reverence=Eventuality |
| 3 | **show** | present | the water god | prayer |  |  |  | in the lightning | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in lightning=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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