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title: They are careful not to offend them; there are many little manitous;… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: They are careful not to offend them; there are many little manitous; there are many manitous that try to do harm. Who acts: Chippewas, many manitous. 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 dependen
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IV. the Face of the Great Manitou in the Rock, sentence 36

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They are careful not to offend them; there are many little manitous; there are many manitous that try to do harm.

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**Who acts:** Chippewas, many manitous · **What happens:** be, not offend, try, do · **To what, where:** Chippewas, many, harm

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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 (Chippewas, many manitous), 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:pg73136:29:36
# text = They are careful not to offend them; there are many little manitous; there are many manitous that try to do harm.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	offend	offend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	manitous	manitous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	manitous	manitou	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Chippewas *= chippewa* |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **offend** | to-infinitive | Chippewas *= chippewa* *not said here* | Chippewas *= chippewa* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
| 3 | **be** | present | Chippewas *= chippewa* *not said here* | many |  | there |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot many=Theme |
| 4 | **does** | present | many manitous |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **try** | present | many manitous |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | many manitous *not said here* | harm |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality |

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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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