---
title: In a wigwam by the Falls of Minnehaha lived an Indian brave with his… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: In a wigwam by the Falls of Minnehaha lived an Indian brave with his family. Who acts: wigwam. 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 clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/46/2/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Wigwam stories told by North American…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/) / [A Legend of Minnehaha Falls](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/46/) / 2

# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 2

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In a wigwam by the Falls of Minnehaha lived an Indian brave with his family.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** wigwam · **What happens:** live

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (wigwam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73136:46:2
# text = In a wigwam by the Falls of Minnehaha lived an Indian brave with his family.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Falls	Falls	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Minnehaha	Minnehaha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | a wigwam by the Falls of Minnehaha |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/46/1/)
- next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/46/3/)
- ↑ back to [A Legend of Minnehaha Falls](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/46/)