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title: There are more stories of Iagoo, the great story-teller, but Lame Bu… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: There are more stories of Iagoo, the great story-teller, but Lame Buffalo did not tell any more. Who acts: more stories, Lame. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 145

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There are more stories of Iagoo, the great story-teller, but Lame Buffalo did not tell any more.

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**Who acts:** more stories, Lame · **What happens:** be, not tell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (more stories, Lame), 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:pg73136:26:145
# text = There are more stories of Iagoo, the great story-teller, but Lame Buffalo did not tell any more.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Iagoo	Iagoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	teller	teller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	Lame	Lame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	Buffalo	Buffalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | more stories of Iagoo |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Lame |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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