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title: Their love for their nation, tribe, and family is very great, and th… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Their love for their nation, tribe, and family is very great, and that is one reason why a few of the Indian students become once more Blanket Indians. Who acts: family, that, few, tribes. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Introductory—the Indians’
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—the Indians’ Present Condition, sentence 5

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Their love for their nation, tribe, and family is very great, and that is one reason why a few of the Indian students become once more Blanket Indians.

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**Who acts:** family, that, few, tribes · **What happens:** be, become, love · **To what, where:** one reason, love

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Introductory—the Indians’ Present Condition. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, that, few, tribes), 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:pg73136:68:5
# text = Their love for their nation, tribe, and family is very great, and that is one reason why a few of the Indian students become once more Blanket Indians.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
20	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
27	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
28	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	29	advmod	_	_
29	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	xcomp	_	_
30	Blanket	blanket	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | family |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that | one reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | present | a few of the Indian students |  |  |  |  | more *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **love** |  | tribes *= tribe* |  |  |  |  | for tribes's nation | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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