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title: He called to his brothers, who are the trees, animals, and everythin… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: He called to his brothers, who are the trees, animals, and everything on the land, to come and live on this land. Who acts: Menabozho, brothers, everything. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, II. Story of the Deluge, with its dependency tree and the
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. Story of the Deluge, sentence 33

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He called to his brothers, who are the trees, animals, and everything on the land, to come and live on this land.

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**Who acts:** Menabozho, brothers, everything · **What happens:** call, be, come, live · **To what, where:** brothers, trees, land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, II. Story of the Deluge. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Menabozho, brothers, everything), 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:pg73136:71:33
# text = He called to his brothers, who are the trees, animals, and everything on the land, to come and live on this land.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	21	nsubj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | Menabozho |  | Menabozho's brothers |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Menabozho's brothers | the trees and animals |  |  |  | animals *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | everything on the land |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | infinitive | everything on the land *not said here* |  |  | this land |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location |

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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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