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title: Sequoia, the botanical name of the big trees of California, is the o… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Sequoia, the botanical name of the big trees of California, is the only memorial the white man has given this truly American genius. Who acts: Sequoia, white man. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Books in the Indian Language, with its dependency t
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Books in the Indian Language, sentence 23

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Sequoia, the botanical name of the big trees of California, is the only memorial the white man has given this truly American genius.

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**Who acts:** Sequoia, white man · **What happens:** be, give, name · **To what, where:** only memorial, American genius, big trees

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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 (Sequoia, white man), 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:pg73136:5:23
# text = Sequoia, the botanical name of the big trees of California, is the only memorial the white man has given this truly American genius.
1	Sequoia	sequoia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	botanical	botanical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	California	California	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	memorial	memorial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
23	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Sequoia | the only memorial |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present · perfect | the white man | this American genius |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genius=Theme |
| 3 | **name** |  |  | the big trees of California |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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