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title: His songs are for the little children and for the fathers and mother… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: His songs are for the little children and for the fathers and mothers who want their little ones to be brave. Who acts: songs, mothers, little ones, Opechee. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast, with its dependency tr
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast, sentence 44

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His songs are for the little children and for the fathers and mothers who want their little ones to be brave.

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**Who acts:** songs, mothers, little ones, Opechee · **What happens:** be, want, sing · **To what, where:** little ones

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (songs, mothers, little ones, Opechee), 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:pg73136:66:44
# text = His songs are for the little children and for the fathers and mothers who want their little ones to be brave.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Opechee's songs |  |  |  |  | for the little children and the fathers and mothers; the fathers and mothers *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | present | mothers | songs's little ones |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot one=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | songs's little ones *not said here* |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sing** |  | Opechee |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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