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title: His wits are keen, and his judgment as fine as many a civilized man… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: His wits are keen, and his judgment as fine as many a civilized man can claim. Who acts: wits, judgment, civilized man, Menabozho. 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 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 53

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His wits are keen, and his judgment as fine as many a civilized man can claim.

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**Who acts:** wits, judgment, civilized man, Menabozho · **What happens:** be, claim, judge · **To what, where:** many

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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 (wits, judgment, civilized man, Menabozho), 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:pg73136:69:53
# text = His wits are keen, and his judgment as fine as many a civilized man can claim.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	wits	wit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	keen	keen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	civilized	civilized	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	claim	claim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Menabozho's wits |  |  |  |  | keen *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Menabozho's judgment |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **claim** *speech: other* | can | a civilized man | many |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent many=Topic |
| 4 | **judge** |  | Menabozho |  |  |  |  |  | nom judgment «cognition transitive»: poss=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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