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title: It is not well for any one to be wiser than a manitou, for even the… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: It is not well for any one to be wiser than a manitou, for even the flint stones show that these spirits are very powerful. Who acts: child, flint stones, spirits. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, with its depe
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 44

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It is not well for any one to be wiser than a manitou, for even the flint stones show that these spirits are very powerful.

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**Who acts:** child, flint stones, spirits · **What happens:** not be, be, show · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, flint stones, spirits), 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:pg73136:70:44
# text = It is not well for any one to be wiser than a manitou, for even the flint stones show that these spirits are very powerful.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	wiser	wise	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	conj	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	manitou	manitou	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	flint	flint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | child |  |  |  |  | for any one; well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than a manitou; wise *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **show** | present | the flint stones |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | this spirits |  |  |  |  | powerful *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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