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title: Three Ojibway hunters had been out hunting for meat many days; it wa… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Three Ojibway hunters had been out hunting for meat many days; it was in a new place. Who acts: Three Ojibway hunters, meat. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVI. the North Star, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 2

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Three Ojibway hunters had been out hunting for meat many days; it was in a new place.

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**Who acts:** Three Ojibway hunters, meat · **What happens:** have out, hunt, be · **To what, where:** new place

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVI. the North Star. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Three Ojibway hunters, meat), 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:pg73136:51:2
# text = Three Ojibway hunters had been out hunting for meat many days; it was in a new place.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	Ojibway	Ojibway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have out** | past | Three Ojibway hunters |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hunt** | gerund | Three Ojibway hunters *not said here* |  |  |  | day | for meat | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for meat=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | meat |  |  | a new place |  |  | 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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