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title: He became a silent student and lost or forgot his old warlike spirit. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: He became a silent student and lost or forgot his old warlike spirit. Who acts: Georgia. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Books in the Indian Language, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Books in the Indian Language, sentence 12

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He became a silent student and lost or forgot his old warlike spirit.

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**Who acts:** Georgia · **What happens:** become, lose, forget · **To what, where:** silent student, old warlike spirit

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Books in the Indian Language. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Georgia), 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:pg73136:5:12
# text = He became a silent student and lost or forgot his old warlike spirit.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	warlike	warlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Georgia | a silent student |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **lose** | participle | Georgia *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **forget** | past | Georgia *not said here* | Georgia's old warlike spirit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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