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title: The name Menabozho has been found to mean in the Indian language the… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The name Menabozho has been found to mean in the Indian language the Great White Hare. Who acts: name. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 13

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The name Menabozho has been found to mean in the Indian language the Great White Hare.

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**Who acts:** name · **What happens:** find, mean · **To what, where:** name

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name), 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:pg73136:69:13
# text = The name Menabozho has been found to mean in the Indian language the Great White Hare.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	Great	Great	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present · perfect · passive |  | the name |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | to-infinitive | the name *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the Indian language | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in language=Attribute |

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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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