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title: This record, which the notched and painted sticks have kept for seve… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: This record, which the notched and painted sticks have kept for several hundreds of years, is an account of the travels of the Leni Lennape Indians from the Northwest across the Wide River. Who acts: record. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Records, sentence 9

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This record, which the notched and painted sticks have kept for several hundreds of years, is an account of the travels of the Leni Lennape Indians from the Northwest across the Wide River.

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**Who acts:** record · **What happens:** notch, paint, keep, be, travel · **To what, where:** notched sticks, account, Wide River

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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 (record), 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:pg73136:8:9
# text = This record, which the notched and painted sticks have kept for several hundreds of years, is an account of the travels of the Leni Lennape Indians from the Northwest across the Wide River.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	notched	notch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
9	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
21	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	Leni	Leni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	Lennape	Lennape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Northwest	Northwest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	across	across	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **paint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** | present · perfect · passive |  | the notched sticks |  |  |  | for several hundreds of years; this record *obj* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme which=Attribute |
| 4 | **is a** | present | this record | a account |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **travel** | present | this record *not said here* |  |  | the Wide River |  | of the Leni Lennape Indians from the Northwest | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of indian=Trajectory |

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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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