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title: Father Hennepin describes the excitement of the game in his Descript… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Father Hennepin describes the excitement of the game in his Descriptions of Louisiana, published in Paris in 1683. Who acts: Father. 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 28

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Father Hennepin describes the excitement of the game in his Descriptions of Louisiana, published in Paris in 1683.

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**Who acts:** Father · **What happens:** describe, publish, excite · **To what, where:** excitement, Descriptions, Paris, game, Louisiana

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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: who acts (Father), 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:pg73136:20:28
# text = Father Hennepin describes the excitement of the game in his Descriptions of Louisiana, published in Paris in 1683.
1	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Hennepin	Hennepin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	describes	describe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	excitement	excitement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Descriptions	description	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Louisiana	Louisiana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	1683	1683	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present | Father | the excitement of the game |  | Father's Descriptions of Louisiana |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent excitement=Theme |
| 2 | **publish** | participle |  | Father's Descriptions of Louisiana *not said here* |  | Paris |  | in 1683 | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **excite** |  |  | the game |  |  |  |  | nom excitement «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **describe** |  | Father | Louisiana |  |  |  |  | nom description «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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