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title: The Ojibway mother puts her papoose to sleep in a tiny hammock made… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ojibway mother puts her papoose to sleep in a tiny hammock made of bark, fastened with sinew thongs and lined with soft, dry moss. Who acts: Ojibway mother. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors, with it
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors, sentence 4

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The Ojibway mother puts her papoose to sleep in a tiny hammock made of bark, fastened with sinew thongs and lined with soft, dry moss.

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**Who acts:** Ojibway mother · **What happens:** put, sleep, make, fasten, line · **To what, where:** papoose, tiny hammock

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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 (Ojibway mother), 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:pg73136:34:4
# text = The Ojibway mother puts her papoose to sleep in a tiny hammock made of bark, fastened with sinew thongs and lined with soft, dry moss.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Ojibway	Ojibway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	papoose	papoose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hammock	hammock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	sinew	sinew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	thongs	thong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	lined	line	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | present | the Ojibway mother | mother's papoose |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent papoose=Goal |
| 2 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | the Ojibway mother *not said here* |  |  | a tiny hammock |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in hammock=Location |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | a tiny hammock *not said here* |  |  |  | of bark | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **fasten** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with sinew thongs | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with thong=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **line** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with soft dry moss | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with moss=Theme |

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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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