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title: The lakes near the source of the Great River abound in wild rice, wh… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The lakes near the source of the Great River abound in wild rice, which is gathered in August and stored in mokuks for winter use. Who acts: lakes. 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
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 32

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The lakes near the source of the Great River abound in wild rice, which is gathered in August and stored in mokuks for winter use.

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**Who acts:** lakes · **What happens:** abound, gather, store · **To what, where:** wild rice, mokuks

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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 (lakes), 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:pg73136:21:32
# text = The lakes near the source of the Great River abound in wild rice, which is gathered in August and stored in mokuks for winter use.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	near	near	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
9	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	abound	abound	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	mokuks	mokuk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abound** | infinitive | the lakes near the source of the Great River |  |  | wild rice |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rice=Location |
| 2 | **gather** | present · passive |  | wild rice |  |  | august |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **store** | participle |  |  |  | mokuks |  | for winter use | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in mokuk=Location |

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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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