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title: Introductory—The Indians’ Present Condition 217 I. Menabozho and his… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Introductory—The Indians’ Present Condition 217 I. Menabozho and his Three Brothers 223 II. Who acts: Introductory Indians. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Stories Recently Told of Hiawatha and Other Heroes, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Stories Recently Told of Hiawatha and Other Heroes, sentence 1

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Introductory—The Indians’ Present Condition 217 I. Menabozho and his Three Brothers 223 II.

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**Who acts:** Introductory Indians · **What happens:** condition · **To what, where:** Present Condition

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Stories Recently Told of Hiawatha and Other Heroes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Introductory Indians), 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:pg73136:4:1
# text = Introductory—The Indians’ Present Condition 217 I. Menabozho and his Three Brothers 223 II.
1	Introductory	Introductory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	Present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	217	217	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	_
9	I.	I.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Brothers	Brother	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
15	223	223	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	list	_	_
16	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **condition** |  | the Introductory Indians |  |  |  |  |  | nom condition «state transitive»: poss=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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