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title: Some form of worship, either feast or dance, would then be held, and… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Some form of worship, either feast or dance, would then be held, and runners would after this be sent out again to ask what the echo god meant by not answering. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, with its
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 10

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Some form of worship, either feast or dance, would then be held, and runners would after this be sent out again to ask what the echo god meant by not answering.

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**What happens:** hold, send out, ask, god, mean, not answer · **To what, where:** form, runners, echo god, worship · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg73136:59:10
# text = Some form of worship, either feast or dance, would then be held, and runners would after this be sent out again to ask what the echo god meant by not answering.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	worship	worship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc:preconj	_	_
7	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	runners	runner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obl	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	nsubj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	echo	echo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	ccomp	_	_
31	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	answering	answer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | would · passive |  | some form of worship |  |  | then |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **send out** | would · passive |  | runners |  |  | again |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **god** |  |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **mean** | participle |  | the echo god *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **form** |  |  | worship |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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