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title: At last it trembled; then the Kaidah Indians, who have big heads and… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: At last it trembled; then the Kaidah Indians, who have big heads and loud voices, shouted louder than any other tribe. Who acts: mountain, Kaidah Indians. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIV. How the Copper Mountain Came to Fall, with its depende
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. How the Copper Mountain Came to Fall, sentence 13

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At last it trembled; then the Kaidah Indians, who have big heads and loud voices, shouted louder than any other tribe.

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**Who acts:** mountain, Kaidah Indians · **What happens:** tremble, have, shout · **To what, where:** big heads, last

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIV. How the Copper Mountain Came to Fall. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountain, Kaidah 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:pg73136:83:13
# text = At last it trembled; then the Kaidah Indians, who have big heads and loud voices, shouted louder than any other tribe.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Kaidah	Kaidah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
19	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	xcomp	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tremble** | past | mountain |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | the Kaidah Indians | big heads and loud voices |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | the Kaidah Indians |  |  | last | then | loud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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