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title: “Brothers, hear! and with the heart keep my words. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: “Brothers, hear! and with the heart keep my words. Who acts: Brothers, my. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXII. an Indian Temperance Speech, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXII. an Indian Temperance Speech, sentence 2

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“Brothers, hear! and with the heart keep my words.

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**Who acts:** Brothers, my · **What happens:** hear, keep, word · **To what, where:** words

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXII. an Indian Temperance Speech. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brothers, my), 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:pg73136:47:2
# text = “Brothers, hear! and with the heart keep my words.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brothers |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **keep** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brothers *not said here* | my words |  |  |  | with the heart | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 3 | **word** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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