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title: Seven little Iroquois boys were in the habit of carrying their dishe… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Seven little Iroquois boys were in the habit of carrying their dishes of succotash to the top of a little hill near their wigwams. Who acts: Seven Iroquois boys, habit. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades, with its 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades, sentence 2

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Seven little Iroquois boys were in the habit of carrying their dishes of succotash to the top of a little hill near their wigwams.

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**Who acts:** Seven Iroquois boys, habit · **What happens:** be, carry · **To what, where:** habit, dishes, wigwams

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seven Iroquois boys, habit), 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:pg73136:57:2
# text = Seven little Iroquois boys were in the habit of carrying their dishes of succotash to the top of a little hill near their wigwams.
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Iroquois	iroquois	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	succotash	succotash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	near	near	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	wigwams	wigwam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Seven Iroquois boys |  |  | the habit |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund | the habit *not said here* | boys's dishes of succotash |  | boys's wigwams |  | to the top of a little hill | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dish=Theme to top=Destination |

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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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