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title: The Day Sun is glad to know that the Indians give thanks for his gif… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Day Sun is glad to know that the Indians give thanks for his gifts to them. Who acts: Day Sun, Indians, Sun. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XV. the Sun and the Moon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Sun and the Moon, sentence 34

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The Day Sun is glad to know that the Indians give thanks for his gifts to them.

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**Who acts:** Day Sun, Indians, Sun · **What happens:** be, know, give, gift · **To what, where:** thanks · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XV. the Sun and the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Day Sun, Indians, Sun), 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:pg73136:84:34
# text = The Day Sun is glad to know that the Indians give thanks for his gifts to them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Day Sun |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive | the Day Sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **give** | present | the Indians | thanks |  |  |  | for Sun's gifts to gifts | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme for gift=Asset |
| 4 | **gift** |  | Sun |  |  |  |  | to gifts *= gift* | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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