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title: Kacluge fed him with white corn meal mixed with pure water. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Kacluge fed him with white corn meal mixed with pure water. Who acts: Kacluge. 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 20

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Kacluge fed him with white corn meal mixed with pure water.

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**Who acts:** Kacluge · **What happens:** feed, mix · **To what, where:** man, white corn meal

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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 (Kacluge), 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:pg73136:23:20
# text = Kacluge fed him with white corn meal mixed with pure water.
1	Kacluge	Kacluge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | past | Kacluge |  | man |  |  | with white corn meal | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **mix** | participle |  | white corn meal *not said here* |  |  |  | with pure water | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with water=Co-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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