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title: My mother is wise; she will not ask any more,” and Cloud Catcher kep… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: My mother is wise; she will not ask any more,” and Cloud Catcher kept very quiet with his tongue. Who acts: mother, girl, Cloud. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 51

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My mother is wise; she will not ask any more,” and Cloud Catcher kept very quiet with his tongue.

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**Who acts:** mother, girl, Cloud · **What happens:** be, not ask, keep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, girl, Cloud), 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:pg73136:67:51
# text = My mother is wise; she will not ask any more,” and Cloud Catcher kept very quiet with his tongue.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
10	any	any	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	Cloud	Cloud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	Catcher	Catcher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | My mother |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | future | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | past | Cloud |  |  |  |  | with father's tongue; quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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