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title: The red men are very proud of their own people, who can lift the gre… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The red men are very proud of their own people, who can lift the greatest weight, run the fastest races, or suffer the most pain without making a sound. Who acts: red men. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VIII. Giants and Fairies, with its depende
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VIII. Giants and Fairies, sentence 2

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The red men are very proud of their own people, who can lift the greatest weight, run the fastest races, or suffer the most pain without making a sound.

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**Who acts:** red men · **What happens:** be, lift, run, suffer, make · **To what, where:** greatest weight, fastest races, pain, sound

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VIII. Giants and Fairies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (red men), 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:pg73136:33:2
# text = The red men are very proud of their own people, who can lift the greatest weight, run the fastest races, or suffer the most pain without making a sound.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	fastest	fast	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	28	advmod	_	_
28	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the red men |  |  |  |  | of men's own people; proud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lift** | can |  | the greatest weight |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | infinitive |  | the fastest races |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme race=Trajectory |
| 4 | **suffer** | infinitive |  | the pain |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pain=Stimulus |
| 5 | **make** | gerund |  | a sound |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |

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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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