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title: The boy chief made a law that wampum should be the price of peace. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The boy chief made a law that wampum should be the price of peace. Who acts: boy chief, law. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXIX. Legend of the Wampum-bird and the Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIX. Legend of the Wampum-bird and the Boy, sentence 31

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The boy chief made a law that wampum should be the price of peace.

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**Who acts:** boy chief, law · **What happens:** make, be · **To what, where:** law, price

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXIX. Legend of the Wampum-bird and the Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy chief, law), 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:pg73136:64:31
# text = The boy chief made a law that wampum should be the price of peace.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
8	wampum	wampum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the boy chief | a law |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset law=Product |
| 2 | **is a** | should | a law | the price |  |  |  | of peace; wampum *nsubj* | 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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