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title: The dish is struck against the nearest object with a sharp blow. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The dish is struck against the nearest object with a sharp blow. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Games, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 23

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The dish is struck against the nearest object with a sharp blow.

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**What happens:** strike · **To what, where:** dish

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Games. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg73136:20:23
# text = The dish is struck against the nearest object with a sharp blow.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | present · passive |  | the dish |  |  |  | against the nearest object with a sharp blow | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument against object=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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