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title: Kwasind, among the Chippewas, was a strong weedigo, or giant. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Kwasind, among the Chippewas, was a strong weedigo, or giant. Who acts: Kwasind. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VIII. Giants and Fairies, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VIII. Giants and Fairies, sentence 4

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Kwasind, among the Chippewas, was a strong weedigo, or giant.

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**Who acts:** Kwasind · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** strong weedigo

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VIII. Giants and Fairies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kwasind), 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:pg73136:33:4
# text = Kwasind, among the Chippewas, was a strong weedigo, or giant.
1	Kwasind	Kwasind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Chippewas	chippewa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	weedigo	weedigo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Kwasind and the Chippewas | a strong weedigo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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