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title: The North Wind’s Defeat 189 XXXVIII. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The North Wind’s Defeat 189 XXXVIII. Who acts: North Wind. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Traditions and Myths, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Traditions and Myths, sentence 36

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The North Wind’s Defeat 189 XXXVIII.

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**Who acts:** North Wind · **What happens:** defeat · **To what, where:** Defeat

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Traditions and Myths. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (North Wind), 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:pg73136:3:36
# text = The North Wind’s Defeat 189 XXXVIII.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	Defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	189	189	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	XXXVIII	XXXVIII	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **defeat** |  | the North Wind |  |  |  |  |  | nom defeat «event transitive»: poss=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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