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title: The story of buzzing Weenk and his band is fresh every evening, for… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The story of buzzing Weenk and his band is fresh every evening, for they always tell new stories of what the little warriors can do. Who acts: story, stories, little warriors. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Wa
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors, sentence 24

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The story of buzzing Weenk and his band is fresh every evening, for they always tell new stories of what the little warriors can do.

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**Who acts:** story, stories, little warriors · **What happens:** buzz, be, tell, do · **To what, where:** Weenk, new stories · **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 (story, stories, little warriors), 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:pg73136:34:24
# text = The story of buzzing Weenk and his band is fresh every evening, for they always tell new stories of what the little warriors can do.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	buzzing	buzz	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	Weenk	Weenk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buzz** | gerund | the story *not said here* | Weenk |  |  |  | Weenk's band *conj* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent weenk=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the story |  |  |  | evening | fresh *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | stories *= story* | new stories |  |  |  | always *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 4 | **do** | can | the little warriors |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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