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title: The squaw gathered these plants and did as he told her with them; th… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The squaw gathered these plants and did as he told her with them; the sores on his feet were healed and he was better very soon. Who acts: squaw. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants, with its depende
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants, sentence 14

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The squaw gathered these plants and did as he told her with them; the sores on his feet were healed and he was better very soon.

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**Who acts:** squaw · **What happens:** gather, do, tell, heal, be · **To what, where:** plants, family, sores · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squaw), 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:pg73136:42:14
# text = The squaw gathered these plants and did as he told her with them; the sores on his feet were healed and he was better very soon.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	squaw	squaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sores	sore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	healed	heal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	parataxis	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past | the squaw | this plants |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | the squaw *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | squaw |  | family |  |  | with plants *= plant* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 4 | **heal** | past · passive |  | the sores on squaw's feet |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | squaw |  |  |  |  | good, soon *property* | tree rules |

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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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