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title: There was another Chief Logan who was for a time chief among the Del… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: There was another Chief Logan who was for a time chief among the Delawares. Who acts: time chief, Chief Logan. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Chief Logan and Others, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Chief Logan and Others, sentence 8

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There was another Chief Logan who was for a time chief among the Delawares.

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**Who acts:** time chief, Chief Logan · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Chief Logan and Others. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time chief, Chief Logan), 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:pg73136:22:8
# text = There was another Chief Logan who was for a time chief among the Delawares.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
4	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Logan	Logan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
12	among	among	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Delawares	delaware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | another time chief |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Chief Logan |  |  |  |  | for another time chief; among the Delawares; who *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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