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title: Marie, for many fish were in these waters, but there was no place to… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Marie, for many fish were in these waters, but there was no place to plant their corn. Who acts: many fish, Marie. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 3

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Marie, for many fish were in these waters, but there was no place to plant their corn.

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**Who acts:** many fish, Marie · **What happens:** be, plant · **To what, where:** place, corn

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many fish, Marie), 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:pg73136:21:3
# text = Marie, for many fish were in these waters, but there was no place to plant their corn.
1	Marie	Marie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	plant	plant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | many fish |  |  |  |  | for this waters | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Marie and this waters | no place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **plant** | to-infinitive |  | fish's corn |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient |

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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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