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title: Stories that the Indians are telling of him to-day speak of him as c… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Stories that the Indians are telling of him to-day speak of him as calling the trees his brothers. Who acts: Stories. 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 41

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Stories that the Indians are telling of him to-day speak of him as calling the trees his brothers.

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**Who acts:** Stories · **What happens:** tell, call · **To what, where:** day speak, trees · **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 (Stories), 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:pg73136:69:41
# text = Stories that the Indians are telling of him to-day speak of him as calling the trees his brothers.
1	Stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	speak	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | Stories  the Indians  that |  | day speak of Menabozho |  |  | of Menabozho | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to speak=Recipient |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | Stories  the Indians  that *not said here* | the trees |  |  |  | Menabozho's brothers *obj* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme brother=Result |

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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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