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title: This caused great excitement; young men came in scores to learn of h… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: This caused great excitement; young men came in scores to learn of him; they forgot hunting and war for letter-writing. Who acts: This, young men, scores. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Books in the Indian Language, with its dependency tree and 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Books in the Indian Language, sentence 17

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This caused great excitement; young men came in scores to learn of him; they forgot hunting and war for letter-writing.

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**Who acts:** This, young men, scores · **What happens:** cause, come, learn, forget, not hunt · **To what, where:** great excitement, scores

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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 (This, young men, scores), 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:pg73136:5:17
# text = This caused great excitement; young men came in scores to learn of him; they forgot hunting and war for letter-writing.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	excitement	excitement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	scores	score	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | This | great excitement |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition excitement=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past | young men |  |  | scores |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in score=Location |
| 3 | **learn** | to-infinitive | young men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of man | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of he=Topic |
| 4 | **forget** | past | scores *= score* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **hunt** | gerund | scores *= score* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for letter writing; war *conj* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for writing=Theme |

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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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