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title: For many years meat and flour were given to some tribes as rations a… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—the Indians’ Present Condition, sentence 3

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For many years meat and flour were given to some tribes as rations at certain periods of the year, when they also received money and blankets.

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**Who acts:** tribes · **What happens:** give, receive · **To what, where:** meat, tribes, certain periods, money

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Introductory—the Indians’ Present Condition. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tribes), 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:pg73136:68:3
# text = For many years meat and flour were given to some tribes as rations at certain periods of the year, when they also received money and blankets.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
4	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	rations	ration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	periods	period	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
25	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive |  | meat and flour | some tribes | certain periods of the year | year | as rations | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: subject=Theme to tribe=Recipient at period=Asset |
| 2 | **receive** | past | tribes *= tribe* | money and blankets |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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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