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title: He had won his name by his great feats of bravery; his eyes never gr… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: He had won his name by his great feats of bravery; his eyes never grew dim with sickness nor pain; he had never shown fear. Who acts: story, eyes. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 4

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He had won his name by his great feats of bravery; his eyes never grew dim with sickness nor pain; he had never shown fear.

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**Who acts:** story, eyes · **What happens:** win, not grow, not show, name · **To what, where:** name, fear

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, eyes), 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:pg73136:52:4
# text = He had won his name by his great feats of bravery; his eyes never grew dim with sickness nor pain; he had never shown fear.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	feats	feat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:agent	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	bravery	bravery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sickness	sickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	21	cc	_	_
21	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
27	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past · perfect | story | story's name |  |  |  | story's great feats of bravery *obl:agent* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **grow** | past | story's eyes |  |  |  |  | with sickness nor pain; dim *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **show** | past · perfect | story | fear |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fear=Recipient |
| 4 | **name** |  | story |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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