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title: “Look out!” said Menabozho; “don’t go near that sweet-water tree. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: “Look out!” said Menabozho; “don’t go near that sweet-water tree. Who acts: Menabozho. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, III. Menabozho Caught, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 15

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“Look out!” said Menabozho; “don’t go near that sweet-water tree.

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**Who acts:** Menabozho · **What happens:** look out, say, not go · **To what, where:** water tree · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, III. Menabozho Caught. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Menabozho), 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:pg73136:72:15
# text = “Look out!” said Menabozho; “don’t go near that sweet-water tree.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
13	near	near	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
15	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look out** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Menabozho |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  | that water tree |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near tree=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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