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title: If she did not say anything nor see them, they would give her greate… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: If she did not say anything nor see them, they would give her greater gifts than she could ask. Who acts: sister, spirits. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 17

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If she did not say anything nor see them, they would give her greater gifts than she could ask.

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**Who acts:** sister, spirits · **What happens:** not say, see, give, ask · **To what, where:** anything, spirits, greater gifts, sister · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, spirits), 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:pg73136:44:17
# text = If she did not say anything nor see them, they would give her greater gifts than she could ask.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
6	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	8	cc	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | sister | anything |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | sister *not said here* | spirits *= spirit* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 3 | **give** | would | spirits *= spirit* | greater gifts | sister |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient gift=Theme |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | could | sister | greater gifts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gift=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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