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title: There is an order of nuns among the Pueblos called Ko-Ko. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: There is an order of nuns among the Pueblos called Ko-Ko. Who acts: order, Pueblos. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Moki Indians, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Moki Indians, sentence 19

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There is an order of nuns among the Pueblos called Ko-Ko.

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**Who acts:** order, Pueblos · **What happens:** be, call, order · **To what, where:** nuns, Ko · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (order, Pueblos), 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:pg73136:18:19
# text = There is an order of nuns among the Pueblos called Ko-Ko.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	nuns	nun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	among	among	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Pueblos	Pueblo	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	Ko	Ko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Ko	Ko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a order of nuns |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | past | the Pueblos | nuns *not said here* | Ko and Ko |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ko=Recipient |
| 3 | **order** |  |  | nuns |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication 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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