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title: Hiawatha answered: “The Holder of the Heavens has shown me that if I… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Hiawatha answered: “The Holder of the Heavens has shown me that if I go to this council great sorrow will come to me. Who acts: Hiawatha. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, How He United the Five Nations, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 53

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Hiawatha answered: “The Holder of the Heavens has shown me that if I go to this council great sorrow will come to me.

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**Who acts:** Hiawatha · **What happens:** answer, show, go, come · **To what, where:** Holder, council great sorrow, Hiawatha · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, How He United the Five Nations. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hiawatha), 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:pg73136:77:53
# text = Hiawatha answered: “The Holder of the Heavens has shown me that if I go to this council great sorrow will come to me.
1	Hiawatha	Hiawatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Holder	Holder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Heavens	Heaven	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
19	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Hiawatha |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the Holder of the Heavens |  |  |  | me *obj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | Hiawatha |  |  | council great sorrow  this |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sorrow=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | future |  |  | Hiawatha |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location |

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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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