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title: A number of years ago a Mandan chief named Ietan visited the city of… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: A number of years ago a Mandan chief named Ietan visited the city of Washington in company with others. Who acts: number. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Traits, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 15

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A number of years ago a Mandan chief named Ietan visited the city of Washington in company with others.

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**Who acts:** number · **What happens:** name, visit · **To what, where:** Mandan chief, city, company

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Traits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number), 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:pg73136:10:15
# text = A number of years ago a Mandan chief named Ietan visited the city of Washington in company with others.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Mandan	Mandan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	Ietan	Ietan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
11	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Washington	Washington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | participle |  | a Mandan chief *not said here* |  |  |  | Ietan *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **visit** | past | a number of years | the city of Washington |  | company with others |  | a Mandan chief *nsubj* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Co-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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