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title: They are around his head like the war bonnet of a very great chief. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: They are around his head like the war bonnet of a very great chief. Who acts: arrows. 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 8

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They are around his head like the war bonnet of a very great chief.

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**Who acts:** arrows · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** head

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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 (arrows), 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:pg73136:84:8
# text = They are around his head like the war bonnet of a very great chief.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	around	around	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bonnet	bonnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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 | arrows *= arrow* |  |  | Sun's head |  | like the war bonnet of a great chief; Sun *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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