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title: Hiawatha the Iroquois is always dignified; Menabozho the Algonquin i… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Hiawatha the Iroquois is always dignified; Menabozho the Algonquin is very powerful but full of boyish tricks. Who acts: Menabozho. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Introductory—the Indians’ Present Condition, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Introductory—the Indians’ Present Condition, sentence 9

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Hiawatha the Iroquois is always dignified; Menabozho the Algonquin is very powerful but full of boyish tricks.

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**Who acts:** Menabozho · **What happens:** dignify, be · **To what, where:** Hiawatha

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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 (Menabozho), 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:pg73136:68:9
# text = Hiawatha the Iroquois is always dignified; Menabozho the Algonquin is very powerful but full of boyish tricks.
1	Hiawatha	Hiawatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Iroquois	Iroquois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	dignified	dignify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Algonquin	Algonquin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	boyish	boyish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dignify** | present · passive |  | Hiawatha |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Menabozho |  |  |  |  | powerful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Menabozho *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of boyish tricks | 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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