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title: Henry W. Longfellow read them with so much interest that he told the… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Henry W. Longfellow read them with so much interest that he told them again in his beautiful poem of Hiawatha, weaving into the story the bride Minnehaha of whom the Indians have no legend. Who acts: Henry, Indians. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—indian Stories, sentence 11

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Henry W. Longfellow read them with so much interest that he told them again in his beautiful poem of Hiawatha, weaving into the story the bride Minnehaha of whom the Indians have no legend.

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**Who acts:** Henry, Indians · **What happens:** read, tell, weave, have · **To what, where:** legends, beautiful poem, story, legend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Indians), 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:pg73136:25:11
# text = Henry W. Longfellow read them with so much interest that he told them again in his beautiful poem of Hiawatha, weaving into the story the bride Minnehaha of whom the Indians have no legend.
1	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	W.	W.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Longfellow	Longfellow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Hiawatha	Hiawatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
28	Minnehaha	Minnehaha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	35	det	_	_
35	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | past | Henry | legends *= legend* |  |  |  | with much interest | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Henry |  | legends *= legend* | Henry's beautiful poem of Hiawatha | again |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 3 | **weave** | gerund | Henry *not said here* |  |  | the story |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into story=Destination |
| 4 | **have** | present | the Indians | no legend |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent legend=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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