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description: Tchakobeech said: “I will go to the Happy Hunting Grounds and find my father and my mother. Who acts: Tchakobeech. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 8

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Tchakobeech said: “I will go to the Happy Hunting Grounds and find my father and my mother.

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**Who acts:** Tchakobeech · **What happens:** say, go, find · **To what, where:** Happy Hunting Grounds, father · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tchakobeech), 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:pg73136:53:8
# text = Tchakobeech said: “I will go to the Happy Hunting Grounds and find my father and my mother.
1	Tchakobeech	Tchakobeech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tchakobeech |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | future | Tchakobeech |  |  | the Happy Hunting Grounds |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to grounds=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **find** *in a quote* | infinitive | Tchakobeech *not said here* | my father and my mother |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Topic |

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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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