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title: The Navajos give a medicine dance and chant a long song when a sick… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Navajos give a medicine dance and chant a long song when a sick person asks for this service. Who acts: Navajos, sick person. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, A Navajo Medicine Chant, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Navajo Medicine Chant, sentence 1

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The Navajos give a medicine dance and chant a long song when a sick person asks for this service.

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**Who acts:** Navajos, sick person · **What happens:** give, chant, ask · **To what, where:** medicine dance, long song

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, A Navajo Medicine Chant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Navajos, sick person), 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:pg73136:23:1
# text = The Navajos give a medicine dance and chant a long song when a sick person asks for this service.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Navajos	navajo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	chant	chant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | the Navajos | a medicine dance |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Theme |
| 2 | **chant** | present | the Navajos *not said here* | a long song |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a sick person |  |  |  |  | for this service | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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