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title: The Leni Lennape stick records tell only that the country of the Gre… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Leni Lennape stick records tell only that the country of the Great Serpent was conquered little by little. Who acts: Leni stick records. 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 clau
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Records, sentence 23

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The Leni Lennape stick records tell only that the country of the Great Serpent was conquered little by little.

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**Who acts:** Leni stick records · **What happens:** tell, conquer · **To what, where:** country · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Leni stick records), 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:pg73136:8:23
# text = The Leni Lennape stick records tell only that the country of the Great Serpent was conquered little by little.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Leni	Leni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	Lennape	Lennape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	records	record	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Serpent	Serpent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Leni stick records |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **conquer** | past · passive |  | the country of the Great Serpent |  |  |  | by little | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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