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title: He very often appeared upon the earth as a man, for that is the high… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: He very often appeared upon the earth as a man, for that is the highest form of all life. Who acts: Menabozho, that. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 19

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He very often appeared upon the earth as a man, for that is the highest form of all life.

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**Who acts:** Menabozho, that · **What happens:** appear, be · **To what, where:** earth

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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 (Menabozho, that), 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:pg73136:69:19
# text = He very often appeared upon the earth as a man, for that is the highest form of all life.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	appeared	appear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | participle | Menabozho |  |  | the earth |  | as a man; often *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon earth=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | for the highest form; of all life | tree rules |

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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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