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title: One of the warriors in an Ojibway band had a boy who refused to fast… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the warriors in an Ojibway band had a boy who refused to fast as all other boys and men had done. Who acts: One, boy, other boys. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 2

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One of the warriors in an Ojibway band had a boy who refused to fast as all other boys and men had done.

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**Who acts:** One, boy, other boys · **What happens:** have, refuse, do · **To what, where:** boy

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, boy, other boys), 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:pg73136:67:2
# text = One of the warriors in an Ojibway band had a boy who refused to fast as all other boys and men had done.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Ojibway	Ojibway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	too	ADV	RB	Typo=Yes	15	advmod	_	_
15	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | One | a boy |  |  |  | the warriors in a Ojibway band *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient |
| 2 | **refuse** | past | a boy |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | past · perfect | all other boys and men |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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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