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title: When at war with other Indian nations or tribes, the chiefs and warr… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: When at war with other Indian nations or tribes, the chiefs and warriors of the Iroquois would go out and call: “Gohweh! A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 3

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When at war with other Indian nations or tribes, the chiefs and warriors of the Iroquois would go out and call: “Gohweh!

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**What happens:** go out, call · **To what, where:** Gohweh, war · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg73136:59:3
# text = When at war with other Indian nations or tribes, the chiefs and warriors of the Iroquois would go out and call: “Gohweh!
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Iroquois	Iroquois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	out	out	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Gohweh	Gohweh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | would |  | Gohweh |  | war with other Indian nations or tribes and the chiefs and warriors of the Iroquois |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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