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title: Early travelers found some tribes expecting the Great Spirit to come… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Early travelers found some tribes expecting the Great Spirit to come among them again in the shape of palefaced men. Who acts: Early travelers, tribes. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, with its dependency tree a
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 34

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Early travelers found some tribes expecting the Great Spirit to come among them again in the shape of palefaced men.

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**Who acts:** Early travelers, tribes · **What happens:** find, expect, come · **To what, where:** tribes, Great Spirit, shape

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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 (Early travelers, 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:pg73136:69:34
# text = Early travelers found some tribes expecting the Great Spirit to come among them again in the shape of palefaced men.
1	Early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	travelers	traveler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	expecting	expect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
9	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	among	among	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	palefaced	palefaced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Early travelers | some tribes |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribe=Topic |
| 2 | **expect** | gerund | some tribes *not said here* | the Great Spirit |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | some tribes *not said here* |  |  | the shape of palefaced men | again | among men *= man* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Location |

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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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