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title: Numerous earth mounds in the form of an immense serpent are found in… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Numerous earth mounds in the form of an immense serpent are found in the valley of the Mississippi. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Records, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Records, sentence 13

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Numerous earth mounds in the form of an immense serpent are found in the valley of the Mississippi.

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**What happens:** find, form · **To what, where:** Numerous earth mounds, valley, immense serpent

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Records. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg73136:8:13
# text = Numerous earth mounds in the form of an immense serpent are found in the valley of the Mississippi.
1	Numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	mounds	mound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Mississippi	Mississippi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present · passive |  | Numerous earth mounds in the form of a immense serpent |  | the valley of the Mississippi |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **form** |  |  | a immense serpent |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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