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title: In one of these battles Menabozho’s arrows tore off many pieces of f… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: In one of these battles Menabozho’s arrows tore off many pieces of flesh from him. Who acts: arrows. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 11

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In one of these battles Menabozho’s arrows tore off many pieces of flesh from him.

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**Who acts:** arrows · **What happens:** tore off · **To what, where:** many pieces

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arrows), 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:pg73136:70:11
# text = In one of these battles Menabozho’s arrows tore off many pieces of flesh from him.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tore off** | past | Menabozho's arrows | many pieces of flesh from Menabozho |  |  |  | in one of this battles | 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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