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title: His work is to hunt; her work is at home in the teepee, where he can… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: His work is to hunt; her work is at home in the teepee, where he can find rest and food after his hunting. Who acts: work, husband, Fort. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian At Home, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 24

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His work is to hunt; her work is at home in the teepee, where he can find rest and food after his hunting.

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**Who acts:** work, husband, Fort · **What happens:** be, find, work, hunt · **To what, where:** home, rest

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian At Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (work, husband, Fort), 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:pg73136:13:24
# text = His work is to hunt; her work is at home in the teepee, where he can find rest and food after his hunting.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
20	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | husband's work |  |  |  |  | hunt *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Fort's work |  |  | home |  | in the teepee | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | can | husband | rest and food |  |  | after husband's hunting |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Topic |
| 4 | **work** |  | husband |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **work** |  | Fort |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **hunt** |  | husband |  |  |  |  |  | nom hunting «act transitive»: poss=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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