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title: Shingebis the great loon-bird lived in a lodge alone. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Shingebis the great loon-bird lived in a lodge alone. Who acts: Shingebis. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 2

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Shingebis the great loon-bird lived in a lodge alone.

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**Who acts:** Shingebis · **What happens:** live · **To what, where:** lodge

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shingebis), 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:pg73136:62:2
# text = Shingebis the great loon-bird lived in a lodge alone.
1	Shingebis	Shingebis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	loon	loon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Shingebis |  |  | a lodge |  | alone *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lodge=Location |

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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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