---
title: How the Indians came to know Medicine Plants 130 XVIII. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: How the Indians came to know Medicine Plants 130 XVIII. Who acts: Indians. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Traditions and Myths, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/3/16/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Wigwam stories told by North American…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/) / [Traditions and Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/3/) / 16

# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Traditions and Myths, sentence 16

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
How the Indians came to know Medicine Plants 130 XVIII.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Indians · **What happens:** come, know · **To what, where:** Medicine Plants

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Traditions and Myths. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73136:3:16
# text = How the Indians came to know Medicine Plants 130 XVIII.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	Medicine	Medicine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	130	130	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	_
10	XVIII	XVIII	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Indians |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive | the Indians *not said here* | Medicine Plants |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer plant=Stimulus |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/3/15/)
- next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/3/17/)
- ↑ back to [Traditions and Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/3/)