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title: And so this same being is as real to them as any we have learned of… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: And so this same being is as real to them as any we have learned of in our childhood’s days. Who acts: we. 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 48

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And so this same being is as real to them as any we have learned of in our childhood’s days.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** be, learn · **To what, where:** stories

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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 (we), 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:pg73136:69:48
# text = And so this same being is as real to them as any we have learned of in our childhood’s days.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	obl	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  | stories *= story* |  |  | as any; real *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **learn** | present · perfect | we |  |  |  | day |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: 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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