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title: All people, no matter how wild, believe in God; but the wilder the p… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: All people, no matter how wild, believe in God; but the wilder the people the more gods they believe in. Who acts: people. 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 cl
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 5

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All people, no matter how wild, believe in God; but the wilder the people the more gods they believe in.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** believe · **To what, where:** more gods

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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 (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:pg73136:69:5
# text = All people, no matter how wild, believe in God; but the wilder the people the more gods they believe in.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wilder	wild	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	ccomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present | all people |  |  |  |  | in God | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **believe** | present | people | the more gods *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus |

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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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