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title: Usama the tobacco had come with all of his tribe to give gifts to th… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Usama the tobacco had come with all of his tribe to give gifts to the great chief Mondahmin the corn plant. Who acts: Usama. 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 clau
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 40

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Usama the tobacco had come with all of his tribe to give gifts to the great chief Mondahmin the corn plant.

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**Who acts:** Usama · **What happens:** come, give · **To what, where:** gifts

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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 (Usama), 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:pg73136:44:40
# text = Usama the tobacco had come with all of his tribe to give gifts to the great chief Mondahmin the corn plant.
1	Usama	Usama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
13	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	Mondahmin	Mondahmin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · perfect | Usama |  |  |  |  | with all of tobacco's tribe; the tobacco *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | Usama *not said here* | gifts |  |  |  | to the great chief; the corn plant *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent gift=Recipient plant=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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