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description: He is not good enough for wolves to eat,” said the leader; but to the brother who had done wrong life was worse than being torn by wolves. Who acts: brother, leader, wolves. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, with its d
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 48

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He is not good enough for wolves to eat,” said the leader; but to the brother who had done wrong life was worse than being torn by wolves.

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**Who acts:** brother, leader, wolves · **What happens:** not be, eat, say, do, be, tear · **To what, where:** wrong life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, leader, wolves), 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:pg73136:39:48
# text = He is not good enough for wolves to eat,” said the leader; but to the brother who had done wrong life was worse than being torn by wolves.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
27	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | brother |  |  |  |  | enough, good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the leader *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the leader |  |  |  |  | for wolves | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | past · perfect | the brother | wrong life |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the brother; bad *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **tear** *in a quote* | gerund · passive | wolves |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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