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title: The Indian who married the Moon 211 — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Indian who married the Moon 211 Who acts: Indian. 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 41

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The Indian who married the Moon 211

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**Who acts:** Indian · **What happens:** marry · **To what, where:** Moon

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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 (Indian), 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:pg73136:3:41
# text = The Indian who married the Moon 211
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	211	211	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past | the Indian | the Moon |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=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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