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title: We are glad to know that many whites have learned that the red men h… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: We are glad to know that many whites have learned that the red men have a strong love for justice and truth and can show mercy to those who have been merciful. Who acts: We, many whites, red men. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Menabozho, or the 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 51

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We are glad to know that many whites have learned that the red men have a strong love for justice and truth and can show mercy to those who have been merciful.

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**Who acts:** We, many whites, red men · **What happens:** be, know, learn, have, show · **To what, where:** strong love, mercy, those · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, many whites, red men), 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:pg73136:69:51
# text = We are glad to know that many whites have learned that the red men have a strong love for justice and truth and can show mercy to those who have been merciful.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	whites	white	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
26	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	obl	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	cop	_	_
32	merciful	merciful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | We |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **learn** | present · perfect | many whites |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | present | the red men | a strong love |  |  |  | for justice and truth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient |
| 5 | **show** | can | We *not said here* | mercy | those |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mercy=Topic to that=Recipient |
| 6 | **is** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; merciful *property* | 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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