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title: He had a red feather in his scalp lock. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: He had a red feather in his scalp lock. Who acts: stranger. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVIII. Mondahmin, Who Gave the Corn, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVIII. Mondahmin, Who Gave the Corn, sentence 20

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He had a red feather in his scalp lock.

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**Who acts:** stranger · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** red feather, scalp lock

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVIII. Mondahmin, Who Gave the Corn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger), 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:pg73136:43:20
# text = He had a red feather in his scalp lock.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	scalp	scalp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | stranger | a red feather |  | stranger's scalp lock |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient |

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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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