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title: The Ojibways, or Chippewas, tell stories of a hero called by them Me… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ojibways, or Chippewas, tell stories of a hero called by them Menabozho. Who acts: Ojibways. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Introductory—indian Stories, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—indian Stories, sentence 12

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The Ojibways, or Chippewas, tell stories of a hero called by them Menabozho.

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**Who acts:** Ojibways · **What happens:** tell, call · **To what, where:** stories, hero · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Introductory—indian Stories. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ojibways), 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:pg73136:25:12
# text = The Ojibways, or Chippewas, tell stories of a hero called by them Menabozho.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ojibways	ojibway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Chippewas	chippewa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the Ojibways or Chippewas | stories of a hero |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | a hero *not said here* |  |  |  | by stories *= story*; Menabozho *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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