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title: Menabozho swallowed by a Large Fish 239 VII. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Menabozho swallowed by a Large Fish 239 VII. Who acts: Menabozho. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Stories Recently Told of Hiawatha and Other Heroes, sentence 5

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Menabozho swallowed by a Large Fish 239 VII.

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**Who acts:** Menabozho · **What happens:** swallow

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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 (Menabozho), 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:pg73136:4:5
# text = Menabozho swallowed by a Large Fish 239 VII.
1	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	239	239	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
8	VII	vii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | participle | Menabozho |  |  |  |  | by a Large Fish and VII | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «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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