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title: Menabozho, or The Foolish One, is very real to the Chippewa or Ojibw… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Menabozho, or The Foolish One, is very real to the Chippewa or Ojibway Indian of Minnesota. Who acts: Menabozho. 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 12

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Menabozho, or The Foolish One, is very real to the Chippewa or Ojibway Indian of Minnesota.

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**Who acts:** Menabozho · **What happens:** be

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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: who acts (Menabozho), 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:pg73136:1:12
# text = Menabozho, or The Foolish One, is very real to the Chippewa or Ojibway Indian of Minnesota.
1	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	One	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Chippewa	Chippewa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Ojibway	Ojibway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Minnesota	Minnesota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Menabozho |  |  |  |  | to the Chippewa or Ojibway; real *property* | 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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