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title: The people of the Six Nations, or Iroquois, point out to their child… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The people of the Six Nations, or Iroquois, point out to their children a cluster of stars which they call the Old Man. Who acts: people. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXIX. the Old Man in the Sky, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIX. the Old Man in the Sky, sentence 2

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The people of the Six Nations, or Iroquois, point out to their children a cluster of stars which they call the Old Man.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** point out, call · **To what, where:** children, cluster · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXIX. the Old Man in the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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:pg73136:54:2
# text = The people of the Six Nations, or Iroquois, point out to their children a cluster of stars which they call the Old Man.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	Iroquois	Iroquois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	point	point	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cluster	cluster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point out** | infinitive | the people |  | people's children |  |  | of the Six Nations; Iroquois *nsubj*; out *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient |
| 2 | **call** | present | people | a cluster of stars |  |  |  | the Old Man *obj* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme man=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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