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title: Waska and Weharka are for the fourth and fifth girls of a family, an… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Waska and Weharka are for the fourth and fifth girls of a family, and other names are provided for a greater number of children. Who acts: Waska, fourth girls. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, with its dependenc
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, sentence 30

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Waska and Weharka are for the fourth and fifth girls of a family, and other names are provided for a greater number of children.

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**Who acts:** Waska, fourth girls · **What happens:** be, provide · **To what, where:** other names

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Waska, fourth girls), 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:pg73136:14:30
# text = Waska and Weharka are for the fourth and fifth girls of a family, and other names are provided for a greater number of children.
1	Waska	Waska	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Weharka	Weharka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
23	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	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 | Waska and Weharka |  |  |  |  | for the fourth girls; of a family | tree rules |
| 2 | **provide** | present · passive | the fourth girls *not said here* | other names |  |  |  | for a greater number of children | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for number=Beneficiary |

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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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