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title: (“Sacred Spirit, Father! have mercy on me.”) — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: (“Sacred Spirit, Father! have mercy on me.”) Who acts: Sacred Spirit. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IV. the Face of the Great Manitou in the Rock, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IV. the Face of the Great Manitou in the Rock, sentence 34

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(“Sacred Spirit, Father! have mercy on me.”)

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**Who acts:** Sacred Spirit · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** mercy

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IV. the Face of the Great Manitou in the Rock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sacred Spirit), 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:pg73136:29:34
# text = (“Sacred Spirit, Father! have mercy on me.”)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Sacred	Sacred	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Sacred Spirit | mercy |  |  |  | on Indians *= indian* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercy=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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