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title: This chant is the story in song of the capture and escape of a young… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: This chant is the story in song of the capture and escape of a young Navajo brave. Who acts: chant, young Navajo. 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 2

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This chant is the story in song of the capture and escape of a young Navajo brave.

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**Who acts:** chant, young Navajo · **What happens:** be, escape · **To what, where:** story, 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 (chant, young Navajo), 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:pg73136:23:2
# text = This chant is the story in song of the capture and escape of a young Navajo brave.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	chant	chant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	capture	capture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Navajo	Navajo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this chant | the story |  | song |  | of the capture and escape of a young Navajo | tree rules |
| 2 | **escape** |  | a young Navajo |  |  |  |  |  | nom escape «act intransitive»: of=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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