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title: It is at the end of a mesa or plateau which rises abruptly seven hun… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: It is at the end of a mesa or plateau which rises abruptly seven hundred feet above the desert. Who acts: name, plateau. 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 4

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It is at the end of a mesa or plateau which rises abruptly seven hundred feet above the desert.

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**Who acts:** name, plateau · **What happens:** be, rise · **To what, where:** end, hundred feet, desert

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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 (name, plateau), 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:pg73136:18:4
# text = It is at the end of a mesa or plateau which rises abruptly seven hundred feet above the desert.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mesa	mesa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	plateau	plateau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	abruptly	abruptly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	above	above	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | name |  |  |  | at the end | of a mesa or plateau | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | present | plateau | hundred feet |  | the desert |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above desert=Location |

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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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