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title: The Iroquois seem to have been the only nation to worship with feast… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Iroquois seem to have been the only nation to worship with feast and dance the echo god of the hills. Who acts: Iroquois. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 2

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The Iroquois seem to have been the only nation to worship with feast and dance the echo god of the hills.

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**Who acts:** Iroquois · **What happens:** seem, be, worship, dance · **To what, where:** only nation, echo god

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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: who acts (Iroquois), 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:pg73136:59:2
# text = The Iroquois seem to have been the only nation to worship with feast and dance the echo god of the hills.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Iroquois	Iroquois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	worship	worship	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	echo	echo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | the Iroquois |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive · perfect | the Iroquois *not said here* | the only nation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **worship** | to-infinitive | the Iroquois *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with feast | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **dance** | infinitive | the Iroquois *not said here* | the echo god of the hills |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location god=Theme |

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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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