---
title: These wolves ate up the sweet moose fat, and Menabozho fought with t… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: These wolves ate up the sweet moose fat, and Menabozho fought with the trees to get out of the trap they made for him. Who acts: wolves, Menabozho, noses. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, III. Menabozho Caught, with its dependency tree and the pra
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/72/26/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Wigwam stories told by North American…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/) / [III. Menabozho Caught](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/72/) / 26

# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 26

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
These wolves ate up the sweet moose fat, and Menabozho fought with the trees to get out of the trap they made for him.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** wolves, Menabozho, noses · **What happens:** eat up, fight, get out, make · **To what, where:** sweet moose fat, trap

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (wolves, Menabozho, noses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73136:72:26
# text = These wolves ate up the sweet moose fat, and Menabozho fought with the trees to get out of the trap they made for him.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	moose	moose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat up** | past | this wolves | the sweet moose fat |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Patient |
| 2 | **fight** | past | Menabozho |  |  |  |  | with the trees | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with tree=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **get out** | to-infinitive | Menabozho *not said here* | the trap |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | past | noses *= nose* | the trap *not said here* |  |  |  | for Menabozho | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent trap=Product for he=Beneficiary |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/72/25/)
- next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/72/27/)
- ↑ back to [III. Menabozho Caught](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/72/)