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title: The rest was a kind of sorcery; but with the herbs, fresh air, and f… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The rest was a kind of sorcery; but with the herbs, fresh air, and fresh water they managed to cure many ills. Who acts: rest, herbs. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, with its dependency tree and
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 27

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The rest was a kind of sorcery; but with the herbs, fresh air, and fresh water they managed to cure many ills.

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**Who acts:** rest, herbs · **What happens:** be, manage, cure · **To what, where:** kind, fresh water, many ills

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, herbs), 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:pg73136:6:27
# text = The rest was a kind of sorcery; but with the herbs, fresh air, and fresh water they managed to cure many ills.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sorcery	sorcery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	ills	ill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the rest | a kind but the herbs and fresh air and fresh water |  |  |  | of sorcery; the herbs and fresh air and fresh water *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **manage** | past | herbs *= herb* | fresh water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cure** | to-infinitive | herbs *= herb* *not said here* | many ills |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer ill=Source |

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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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