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title: He was allowed to hear the ancient legends, and published them in pr… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: He was allowed to hear the ancient legends, and published them in prose form in 1830. Who acts: Henry. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Introductory—indian Stories, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—indian Stories, sentence 10

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He was allowed to hear the ancient legends, and published them in prose form in 1830.

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**Who acts:** Henry · **What happens:** allow, hear, publish · **To what, where:** Henry, ancient legends, legends, prose form

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Introductory—indian Stories. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Henry), 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:pg73136:25:10
# text = He was allowed to hear the ancient legends, and published them in prose form in 1830.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	published	publish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1830	1830	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | past · passive |  | Henry |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Henry *not said here* | the ancient legends |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer legend=Stimulus |
| 3 | **publish** | past |  | legends *= legend* |  | prose form |  | in 1830 | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result |

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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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