--- title: He has won their respect, given them a written language, and taught… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics description: He has won their respect, given them a written language, and taught them many of the white man’s secrets; in return they have told him many of their stories and their secrets. Who acts: priest, Indians. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIV. How th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/83/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Wigwam stories told by North American…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/) / [XIV. How the Copper Mountain Came to F…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/83/) / 3 # Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. How the Copper Mountain Came to Fall, sentence 3 He has won their respect, given them a written language, and taught them many of the white man’s secrets; in return they have told him many of their stories and their secrets. **Who acts:** priest, Indians · **What happens:** win, give, write, teach, tell, respect · **To what, where:** respect, Indians, many, priest, return · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (priest, Indians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg73136:83:3 # text = He has won their respect, given them a written language, and taught them many of the white man’s secrets; in return they have told him many of their stories and their secrets. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 won win VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ’s 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 secrets secret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ _ 30 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 secrets secret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **win** | present · perfect | priest | Indians's respect | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Eventuality | | 2 | **give** | participle | priest *not said here* | Indians *= indian* | | | | a written language *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient language=Theme | | 3 | **write** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | priest *not said here* | many of the white man's secrets | Indians *= indian* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient many=Topic | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive | | Indians *= indian* | priest | return | | | tree rules | | 6 | **respect** | | Indians *= indian* | | | | | | nom respect «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/83/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/83/4/) - ↑ back to [XIV. 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