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title: Adapted from “Iroquois Myths,” Powell’s Report. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Adapted from “Iroquois Myths,” Powell’s Report. Who acts: Powell. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVI. Legend of Niagara Falls, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVI. Legend of Niagara Falls, sentence 49

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Adapted from “Iroquois Myths,” Powell’s Report.

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**Who acts:** Powell · **What happens:** adapt, report · **To what, where:** Iroquois Myths, Adapted Report

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVI. Legend of Niagara Falls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Powell), 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:pg73136:41:49
# text = Adapted from “Iroquois Myths,” Powell’s Report.
1	Adapted	adapt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Iroquois	Iroquois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Myths	Myths	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
8	Powell	Powell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	Report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adapt** | participle |  |  |  | Iroquois Myths |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **report** |  | Powell |  |  |  |  |  | nom report «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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