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title: The Thunder-Bird of the Dakotas 241 VIII. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Thunder-Bird of the Dakotas 241 VIII. 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 6

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The Thunder-Bird of the Dakotas 241 VIII.

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**To what, where:** Thunder Bird

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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: 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:pg73136:4:6
# text = The Thunder-Bird of the Dakotas 241 VIII.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Thunder	Thunder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	241	241	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	list	_	_
9	VIII	VIII	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	8	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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