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title: In one tribe of the Algonquin Indians the story is told that the Nor… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: In one tribe of the Algonquin Indians the story is told that the North Star is the eye of Keneu, which is their name for eagle. Who acts: North Star, eye. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, with its dependency tree 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 2

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In one tribe of the Algonquin Indians the story is told that the North Star is the eye of Keneu, which is their name for eagle.

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**Who acts:** North Star, eye · **What happens:** tell, be · **To what, where:** story, one tribe, eye, name · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (North Star, eye), 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:pg73136:52:2
# text = In one tribe of the Algonquin Indians the story is told that the North Star is the eye of Keneu, which is their name for eagle.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Algonquin	Algonquin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Keneu	Keneu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | the story |  | one tribe of the Algonquin Indians |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the North Star | the eye and eye's name |  |  |  | of Keneu | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the eye and eye's name | eye's name |  |  |  | for eagle | 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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