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title: He invented a perfect alphabet of over eighty letters for his native… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Books in the Indian Language, sentence 6

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He invented a perfect alphabet of over eighty letters for his native Cherokee language, and by his own zeal inspired his nation with a love for written words.

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**Who acts:** Georgia · **What happens:** invent, inspire, write · **To what, where:** perfect alphabet, nation

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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:pg73136:5:6
# text = He invented a perfect alphabet of over eighty letters for his native Cherokee language, and by his own zeal inspired his nation with a love for written words.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	invented	invent	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	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	alphabet	alphabet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Cherokee	Cherokee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	zeal	zeal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
21	inspired	inspire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invent** | past | Georgia | a perfect alphabet of eighty letters |  |  |  | for Georgia's native Cherokee language | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent alphabet=Result for language=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **inspire** | past | Georgia *not said here* | Georgia's nation |  |  |  | by Georgia's own zeal; with a love; for written words | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nation=Experiencer |
| 3 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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