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title: The Iroquois had conquered these Indians, and had refused to let the… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Iroquois had conquered these Indians, and had refused to let them go to war as a punishment for their great bravery. Who acts: Iroquois, Indians. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Records, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Records, sentence 20

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The Iroquois had conquered these Indians, and had refused to let them go to war as a punishment for their great bravery.

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**Who acts:** Iroquois, Indians · **What happens:** conquer, refuse, not let, go · **To what, where:** Indians, war

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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: who acts (Iroquois, Indians), 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:pg73136:8:20
# text = The Iroquois had conquered these Indians, and had refused to let them go to war as a punishment for their great bravery.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Iroquois	Iroquois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	refused	refuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	bravery	bravery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conquer** | past · perfect | the Iroquois | this Indians |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indian=Patient |
| 2 | **refuse** | past · perfect | the Iroquois *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **let** | to-infinitive | the Iroquois *not said here* | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | Indians *= indian* *not said here* |  |  | war |  | as a punishment; for war's great bravery | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to war=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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