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title: Kwasind was foolish enough to tell this to one of the little water p… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Kwasind was foolish enough to tell this to one of the little water people. Who acts: Kwasind. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VIII. Giants and Fairies, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VIII. Giants and Fairies, sentence 8

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Kwasind was foolish enough to tell this to one of the little water people.

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**Who acts:** Kwasind · **What happens:** be, tell · **To what, where:** this, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Kwasind), 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:pg73136:33:8
# text = Kwasind was foolish enough to tell this to one of the little water people.
1	Kwasind	Kwasind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Kwasind |  |  |  |  | enough, foolish *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Kwasind *not said here* | this | one of the little water people |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to one=Recipient |

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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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