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title: The Moki maidens, like those of a few other tribes, do not leave the… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Moki maidens, like those of a few other tribes, do not leave their straight black hair hanging down their backs. Who acts: Moki maidens, straight black hair. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Moki Indians, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Moki Indians, sentence 7

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The Moki maidens, like those of a few other tribes, do not leave their straight black hair hanging down their backs.

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**Who acts:** Moki maidens, straight black hair · **What happens:** not leave, hang down · **To what, where:** straight black hair, backs

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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 (Moki maidens, straight black hair), 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:pg73136:18:7
# text = The Moki maidens, like those of a few other tribes, do not leave their straight black hair hanging down their backs.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Moki	Moki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	backs	back	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **leave** | infinitive · do-support | the Moki maidens like those of a few other tribes | maidens's straight black hair |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |
| 2 | **hang down** | gerund | maidens's straight black hair *not said here* | maidens's backs |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=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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