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title: When this great manitou walked on the earth his steps measured as lo… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: When this great manitou walked on the earth his steps measured as long as the steps one tribe would take in one day. Who acts: great manitou, one tribe, manitou. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, with its depend
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 29

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When this great manitou walked on the earth his steps measured as long as the steps one tribe would take in one day.

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**Who acts:** great manitou, one tribe, manitou · **What happens:** walk, measure, take, step · **To what, where:** earth, steps

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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 (great manitou, one tribe, manitou), 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:pg73136:70:29
# text = When this great manitou walked on the earth his steps measured as long as the steps one tribe would take in one day.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	manitou	manitou	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	measured	measure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | this great manitou |  |  | the earth and manitou's steps |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Trajectory |
| 2 | **measure** | participle |  | manitou's steps *not said here* |  |  |  | as the steps; long *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | would | one tribe | the steps *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme |
| 4 | **step** |  | manitou |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: poss=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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