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title: The stories recently collected are interesting in showing how alive… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The stories recently collected are interesting in showing how alive is all Nature to those who live nearest to her. Who acts: stories. 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
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 49

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The stories recently collected are interesting in showing how alive is all Nature to those who live nearest to her.

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**Who acts:** stories · **What happens:** collect, be, show, live · **To what, where:** those, alive Nature

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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 (stories), 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:pg73136:69:49
# text = The stories recently collected are interesting in showing how alive is all Nature to those who live nearest to her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	Nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	obl	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | past | the stories *not said here* |  |  |  |  | recently *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the stories |  |  |  |  | interesting *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **show** | gerund | the stories *not said here* |  | those |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to that=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | all alive Nature |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **live** | present |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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