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title: Yannahar, the brave chief, stood up in his wigwam before his fellow… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Yannahar, the brave chief, stood up in his wigwam before his fellow chiefs and spoke these words: Who acts: Yannahar. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXII. an Indian Temperance Speech, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXII. an Indian Temperance Speech, sentence 1

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Yannahar, the brave chief, stood up in his wigwam before his fellow chiefs and spoke these words:

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**Who acts:** Yannahar · **What happens:** stand up, speak · **To what, where:** wigwam, words · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXII. an Indian Temperance Speech. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yannahar), 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:pg73136:47:1
# text = Yannahar, the brave chief, stood up in his wigwam before his fellow chiefs and spoke these words:
1	Yannahar	Yannahar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	fellow	fellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** | past | Yannahar |  |  | Yannahar's wigwam | before Yannahar's fellow chiefs |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wigwam=Location |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Yannahar *not said here* | this words |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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