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title: The various names of Missaba, Mesaba, Michabo are merely English or… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The various names of Missaba, Mesaba, Michabo are merely English or French renderings of the same Algonquin word. Who acts: various names. 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 13

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The various names of Missaba, Mesaba, Michabo are merely English or French renderings of the same Algonquin word.

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**Who acts:** various names · **What happens:** be, name, render · **To what, where:** Missaba, same Algonquin word

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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 (various names), 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:pg73136:1:13
# text = The various names of Missaba, Mesaba, Michabo are merely English or French renderings of the same Algonquin word.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Missaba	Missaba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Mesaba	Mesaba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Michabo	Michabo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	renderings	rendering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Algonquin	Algonquin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the various names of Missaba and Mesaba and Michabo |  |  |  |  | French renderings of the same Algonquin word *conj*; english, merely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **name** |  |  | Missaba and Mesaba and Michabo |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **render** |  |  | the same Algonquin word |  |  |  |  | nom rendering «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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