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title: The Indians watch the sun, moon, and stars a great deal and know muc… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Indians watch the sun, moon, and stars a great deal and know much more about them than many white people who have no time for such study. Who acts: Indians, many white people. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 11

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The Indians watch the sun, moon, and stars a great deal and know much more about them than many white people who have no time for such study.

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**Who acts:** Indians, many white people · **What happens:** watch, know, have · **To what, where:** sun, more

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians, many white people), 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:pg73136:69:11
# text = The Indians watch the sun, moon, and stars a great deal and know much more about them than many white people who have no time for such study.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	much	much	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	obj	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | present | the Indians | the sun and moon |  |  |  | stars *parataxis* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | present | the Indians *not said here* | more than many white people |  |  |  | about Indians *= indian* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** | present | many white people |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «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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