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title: The type was cast in Cherokee characters, the same that Se-quoyah ha… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The type was cast in Cherokee characters, the same that Se-quoyah had invented. 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 20

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The type was cast in Cherokee characters, the same that Se-quoyah had invented.

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**What happens:** cast, invent · **To what, where:** type, Cherokee characters, Se quoyah

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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: 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:pg73136:5:20
# text = The type was cast in Cherokee characters, the same that Se-quoyah had invented.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Cherokee	Cherokee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	Se	Se	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	quoyah	quoyah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast** | past · passive |  | the type |  | Cherokee characters |  |  | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in character=Destination |
| 2 | **invent** | past · perfect · passive |  | Se quoyah |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |

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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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