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title: The brother gave his sister White Earth to Mondahmin, for the Good S… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The brother gave his sister White Earth to Mondahmin, for the Good Spirit had sent him to her. Who acts: brother. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 37

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The brother gave his sister White Earth to Mondahmin, for the Good Spirit had sent him to her.

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**Who acts:** brother · **What happens:** give, send · **To what, where:** sister, Good Spirit, Mondahmin

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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:pg73136:44:37
# text = The brother gave his sister White Earth to Mondahmin, for the Good Spirit had sent him to her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
6	White	White	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Mondahmin	Mondahmin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Good	Good	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
14	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the brother |  | brother's sister |  |  | to Mondahmin | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sister=Theme to mondahmin=Recipient |
| 2 | **send** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Good Spirit | Mondahmin |  |  | brother *obj* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination he=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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