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title: As he was not content in the Great Star Wigwam, his light is not so… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: As he was not content in the Great Star Wigwam, his light is not so bright as that of the six other stars. Who acts: leader, light. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades, sentence 22

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As he was not content in the Great Star Wigwam, his light is not so bright as that of the six other stars.

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**Who acts:** leader, light · **What happens:** not be, light · **To what, where:** Great Star

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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 (leader, light), 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:pg73136:57:22
# text = As he was not content in the Great Star Wigwam, his light is not so bright as that of the six other stars.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Great	Great	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	Wigwam	Wigwam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | leader |  |  | the Great Star |  | content *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | leader's light |  |  |  |  | as that of the six other stars; bright *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **light** |  | leader |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon 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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