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title: A marble bust of Se-quoyah adorns the council house in Tahlequah, th… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: A marble bust of Se-quoyah adorns the council house in Tahlequah, the capital of Indian Territory, where this tribe was sent after gold was found on their reservation in Georgia. Who acts: marble bust. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Books in the
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Books in the Indian Language, sentence 21

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A marble bust of Se-quoyah adorns the council house in Tahlequah, the capital of Indian Territory, where this tribe was sent after gold was found on their reservation in Georgia.

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**Who acts:** marble bust · **What happens:** adorn, send, find, bust · **To what, where:** council house, tribe, Tahlequah, reservation, 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: who acts (marble bust), 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:pg73136:5:21
# text = A marble bust of Se-quoyah adorns the council house in Tahlequah, the capital of Indian Territory, where this tribe was sent after gold was found on their reservation in Georgia.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bust	bust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Se	Se	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	quoyah	quoyah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	adorns	adorn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Tahlequah	Tahlequah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Territory	Territory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	reservation	reservation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adorn** | present | a marble bust of Se quoyah | the council house |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination |
| 2 | **send** | past · passive |  | this tribe |  |  | after gold |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past · passive |  | Tahlequah |  | quoyah's reservation in Georgia |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **bust** |  |  | Se quoyah |  |  |  |  | nom bust «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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