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title: The wicked spirit would not let one person thank the Good Spirit for… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The wicked spirit would not let one person thank the Good Spirit for his gifts to them. Who acts: wicked spirit, one person, person. 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 ev
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 5

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The wicked spirit would not let one person thank the Good Spirit for his gifts to them.

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**Who acts:** wicked spirit, one person, person · **What happens:** not let, thank, gift · **To what, where:** Good Spirit

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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 (wicked spirit, one person, person), 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:pg73136:44:5
# text = The wicked spirit would not let one person thank the Good Spirit for his gifts to them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let** | would | the wicked spirit |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | one person |  | the Good Spirit |  |  | for person's gifts to spirits | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme for gift=Attribute |
| 3 | **gift** |  | person |  |  |  |  | to spirits *= spirit* | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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