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title: Every one was merry but the two squaws; their faces showed the sorro… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Every one was merry but the two squaws; their faces showed the sorrow in their hearts. Who acts: one, faces. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, V. How Two Squaws Saved Their Band, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, V. How Two Squaws Saved Their Band, sentence 6

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Every one was merry but the two squaws; their faces showed the sorrow in their hearts.

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**Who acts:** one, faces · **What happens:** be, show · **To what, where:** sorrow

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, V. How Two Squaws Saved Their Band. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, faces), 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:pg73136:30:6
# text = Every one was merry but the two squaws; their faces showed the sorrow in their hearts.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	squaws	squaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | every one |  |  |  |  | the two squaws *conj*; merry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | past | squaws's faces | the sorrow |  |  |  | in squaws's hearts | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent sorrow=Patient in heart=Topic |

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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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