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title: King Philip saw the ruin of his country and people and commanded an… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: King Philip saw the ruin of his country and people and commanded an uprising. Who acts: Philip. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Chief Logan and Others, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Chief Logan and Others, sentence 14

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King Philip saw the ruin of his country and people and commanded an uprising.

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**Who acts:** Philip · **What happens:** see, command, ruin · **To what, where:** ruin, uprising, country · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Chief Logan and Others. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Philip), 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:pg73136:22:14
# text = King Philip saw the ruin of his country and people and commanded an uprising.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Philip	Philip	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	uprising	uprising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Philip  King | the ruin of Philip's country and people |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ruin=Stimulus |
| 2 | **command** | past | Philip  King *not said here* | a uprising |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent uprising=Eventuality |
| 3 | **ruin** |  |  | Philip's country and people |  |  |  |  | nom ruin «state 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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