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title: She must not be afraid if they fell down with no more life in them w… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: She must not be afraid if they fell down with no more life in them when she did not answer. 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 18

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She must not be afraid if they fell down with no more life in them when she did not answer.

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**Who acts:** sister, spirits · **What happens:** not be, fall down, not answer

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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:pg73136:44:18
# text = She must not be afraid if they fell down with no more life in them when she did not answer.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	20	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | must | sister |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall down** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | spirits *= spirit* |  |  |  |  | with no more life; in gifts *= gift*; down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in they=Location |
| 3 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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