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title: White Earth did not look nor answer him when he spoke. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: White Earth did not look nor answer him when he spoke. Who acts: White Earth, Earth. 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 22

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White Earth did not look nor answer him when he spoke.

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**Who acts:** White Earth, Earth · **What happens:** not look, answer, speak · **To what, where:** Earth · **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 (White Earth, Earth), 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:pg73136:44:22
# text = White Earth did not look nor answer him when he spoke.
1	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	7	cc	_	_
7	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **look** | past · do-support | White Earth |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive | White Earth *not said here* |  | Earth |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Earth |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «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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