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title: He never went into battle, for he had much to keep him away; yet he… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: He never went into battle, for he had much to keep him away; yet he wore eagle feathers in his scalp lock. Who acts: Iagoo. 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 cla
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 34

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He never went into battle, for he had much to keep him away; yet he wore eagle feathers in his scalp lock.

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**Who acts:** Iagoo · **What happens:** not go, have, keep away, wear · **To what, where:** battle, much, Iagoo, eagle feathers, scalp lock

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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 (Iagoo), 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:pg73136:26:34
# text = He never went into battle, for he had much to keep him away; yet he wore eagle feathers in his scalp lock.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	scalp	scalp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | past | Iagoo |  |  | battle |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into battle=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **have** | past | Iagoo | much |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
| 3 | **keep away** | to-infinitive |  | Iagoo |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **wear** | past | Iagoo | eagle feathers |  | Iagoo's scalp lock |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Source |

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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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