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title: People in town never step along like country people. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: People in town never step along like country people. Who acts: People. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 40

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People in town never step along like country people.

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**Who acts:** People · **What happens:** not step

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People), 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:pg73136:81:40
# text = People in town never step along like country people.
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	step	step	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	along	along	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **step** | infinitive | People in town |  |  |  |  | like country people; along *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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