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title: Her husband was like two men; he helped drive the Ojibways back to t… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Her husband was like two men; he helped drive the Ojibways back to their own fishing grounds. Who acts: husband, skin, two men. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 13

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Her husband was like two men; he helped drive the Ojibways back to their own fishing grounds.

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**Who acts:** husband, skin, two men · **What happens:** be, help, drive back · **To what, where:** two men, Ojibways, own fishing grounds

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, skin, two men), 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:pg73136:46:13
# text = Her husband was like two men; he helped drive the Ojibways back to their own fishing grounds.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Ojibways	ojibway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | fishing's husband |  |  |  |  | like two men | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | past | skin | two men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent man=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **drive back** | infinitive | two men *not said here* | the Ojibways |  | Ojibways's own fishing grounds |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ojibway=Theme to grounds=Trajectory |

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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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