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title: WIGWAM STORIES TOLD BY NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: WIGWAM STORIES TOLD BY NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Opening, sentence 1

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WIGWAM STORIES TOLD BY NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS

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**What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** WIGWAM STORIES, AMERICAN INDIANS · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg73136:1:1
# text = WIGWAM STORIES TOLD BY NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
1	WIGWAM	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	STORIES	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	TOLD	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	BY	by	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	NORTH	north	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	AMERICAN	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	INDIANS	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | WIGWAM STORIES *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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