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title: Two moons are given names referring to wild rice: September is the R… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Two moons are given names referring to wild rice: September is the Ripe-rice Moon; October is often called the Harvest Moon. Who acts: names, September. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, with its dependency
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 50

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Two moons are given names referring to wild rice: September is the Ripe-rice Moon; October is often called the Harvest Moon.

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**Who acts:** names, September · **What happens:** give, refer, be, call · **To what, where:** Two moons, rice Moon, October · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (names, September), 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:pg73136:15:50
# text = Two moons are given names referring to wild rice: September is the Ripe-rice Moon; October is often called the Harvest Moon.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	referring	refer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
11	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	Ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Harvest	Harvest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | Two moons |  |  |  | names *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient name=Theme |
| 2 | **refer** | gerund | names *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to wild rice | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to rice=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | September | the rice Moon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | present · passive |  | October |  |  |  | the Harvest Moon *xcomp*; often *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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