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title: It shows that it is always in the heart of man to admire the brave d… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: It shows that it is always in the heart of man to admire the brave deeds of another, even though the hero is an enemy. Who acts: It, plant, hero. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVI. Custer’s Heart, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVI. Custer’s Heart, sentence 12

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It shows that it is always in the heart of man to admire the brave deeds of another, even though the hero is an enemy.

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**Who acts:** It, plant, hero · **What happens:** show, be, admire · **To what, where:** heart, brave deeds, enemy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVI. Custer’s Heart. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, plant, hero), 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:pg73136:85:12
# text = It shows that it is always in the heart of man to admire the brave deeds of another, even though the hero is an enemy.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	admire	admire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
21	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | plant |  |  | the heart |  | of man; always *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **admire** | to-infinitive |  | the brave deeds of another |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deed=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the hero | a enemy |  |  |  |  | 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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