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title: The chipmunk and his tribe won, and night and day have come ever sin… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The chipmunk and his tribe won, and night and day have come ever since that council. Who acts: chipmunk, night. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXIII. the Chipmunk’s Black Stripes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIII. the Chipmunk’s Black Stripes, sentence 26

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The chipmunk and his tribe won, and night and day have come ever since that council.

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**Who acts:** chipmunk, night · **What happens:** win, come

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXIII. the Chipmunk’s Black Stripes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chipmunk, night), 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:pg73136:58:26
# text = The chipmunk and his tribe won, and night and day have come ever since that council.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chipmunk	chipmunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
14	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
15	since	since	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | the chipmunk and bear's tribe |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | present · perfect | night and day |  |  |  | since that council; ever |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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