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title: When the story is of some great deed of Nanabush, or of Missaba, you… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: When the story is of some great deed of Nanabush, or of Missaba, you must remember that these names are only another way of speaking of Menabozho. Who acts: story, you, names, way. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Menabozho, or the Great White Har
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Menabozho, or the Great White Hare, sentence 2

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When the story is of some great deed of Nanabush, or of Missaba, you must remember that these names are only another way of speaking of Menabozho.

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**Who acts:** story, you, names, way · **What happens:** be, remember, speak · **To what, where:** way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (story, you, names, way), 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:pg73136:69:2
# text = When the story is of some great deed of Nanabush, or of Missaba, you must remember that these names are only another way of speaking of Menabozho.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Nanabush	Nanabush	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Missaba	Missaba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the story |  |  |  |  | of some great deed; of Nanabush | tree rules |
| 2 | **remember** | must | you |  |  |  |  | of Missaba | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | this names | another way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | another way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Menabozho | vn talk-37.5 «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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