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title: The wild charge of Custer and his men and their utter defeat will be… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The wild charge of Custer and his men and their utter defeat will be often told and retold in the wigwams of the tribes who fought him. Who acts: tribes, charge. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVI. Custer’s Heart, with its dependency tree and th
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVI. Custer’s Heart, sentence 3

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The wild charge of Custer and his men and their utter defeat will be often told and retold in the wigwams of the tribes who fought him.

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**Who acts:** tribes, charge · **What happens:** tell, retell, fight, charge, defeat · **To what, where:** wild charge, wigwams, man, Custer · **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 (tribes, charge), 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:pg73136:85:3
# text = The wild charge of Custer and his men and their utter defeat will be often told and retold in the wigwams of the tribes who fought him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Custer	Custer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	utter	utter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	retold	retell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	wigwams	wigwam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future · passive |  | the wild charge of Custer and Custer's men and charge's utter defeat |  |  |  | often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **retell** | participle |  |  |  | the wigwams of the tribes |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fight** | past | the tribes | man |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **charge** |  |  | Custer |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **defeat** |  | charge |  |  |  |  |  | nom defeat «event transitive»: poss=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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