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title: He is called the Foolish or Sly One; he is always playing tricks, fo… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: He is called the Foolish or Sly One; he is always playing tricks, for which he is usually punished. 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 13

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He is called the Foolish or Sly One; he is always playing tricks, for which he is usually punished.

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**Who acts:** Henry · **What happens:** call, play, be, punish · **To what, where:** Henry, playing tricks · **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), 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:pg73136:25:13
# text = He is called the Foolish or Sly One; he is always playing tricks, for which he is usually punished.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Foolish	Foolish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Sly	Sly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
13	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · passive |  | Henry |  |  |  | the Foolish or Sly *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **play** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Henry | playing tricks |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **punish** | present · passive |  | Henry |  |  |  | which *obl*; usually *property* | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Patient for which=Theme |

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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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