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title: No other brave in his tribe had ever brought home an elk with such h… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: No other brave in his tribe had ever brought home an elk with such horns. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 142

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No other brave in his tribe had ever brought home an elk with such horns.

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**What happens:** bring · **To what, where:** tribe

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg73136:26:142
# text = No other brave in his tribe had ever brought home an elk with such horns.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
10	home	home	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	elk	elk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | Iagoo's tribe |  |  | ever | a elk *obj*; home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination elk=Theme |

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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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