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title: “Here is a war club one of the little manitous has lost,” a sister w… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: “Here is a war club one of the little manitous has lost,” a sister will say as she picks up a tiny hair. Who acts: war club, sister. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors, sentence 18

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“Here is a war club one of the little manitous has lost,” a sister will say as she picks up a tiny hair.

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**Who acts:** war club, sister · **What happens:** be, lose, say, pick up · **To what, where:** tiny hair · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (war club, sister), 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:pg73136:34:18
# text = “Here is a war club one of the little manitous has lost,” a sister will say as she picks up a tiny hair.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	parataxis	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	manitous	manitous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	picks	pick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a war club |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** *in a quote* | present · perfect | a war club *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | future | a sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **pick up** | present | sister | a tiny hair |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Topic |

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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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