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title: They have an old, old prophecy among many tribes, “that the Great Ma… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: They have an old, old prophecy among many tribes, “that the Great Manitou will some day send away the white race; the whole earth shall be given to the Indians.” Who acts: deer. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Traits, with its dependency t
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 57

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They have an old, old prophecy among many tribes, “that the Great Manitou will some day send away the white race; the whole earth shall be given to the Indians.”

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**Who acts:** deer · **What happens:** have, send away, give · **To what, where:** old old prophecy, Great Manitou, whole earth, Indians

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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 (deer), 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:pg73136:10:57
# text = They have an old, old prophecy among many tribes, “that the Great Manitou will some day send away the white race; the whole earth shall be given to the Indians.”
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	among	among	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Manitou	Manitou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | deer | a old old prophecy |  |  |  | among many tribes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prophecy=Patient |
| 2 | **send away** *in a quote* | future |  | the Great Manitou |  |  | day | the white race *obj*; away *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Theme |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | shall · passive |  | the whole earth | the Indians |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to indian=Recipient |

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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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