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title: But he lives a life far apart from the busy city or town life of the… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: But he lives a life far apart from the busy city or town life of the white man, and it is hard for each to understand the life of the other. Who acts: judgment. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, with its dependen
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 54

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But he lives a life far apart from the busy city or town life of the white man, and it is hard for each to understand the life of the other.

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**Who acts:** judgment · **What happens:** live, be, understand · **To what, where:** life, busy city

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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 (judgment), 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:pg73136:69:54
# text = But he lives a life far apart from the busy city or town life of the white man, and it is hard for each to understand the life of the other.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	expl	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	nmod	_	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 | **live** | present | judgment | a life |  | the busy city or town life of the white man |  | apart *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for each; hard *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **understand** | to-infinitive |  | the life of the other |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer life=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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