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title: He put the meat in boxes made of birch bark and hid the boxes by a s… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: He put the meat in boxes made of birch bark and hid the boxes by a sweet-water tree, which the white men call a maple tree. Who acts: Menabozho, white men. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, III. Menabozho Caught, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 3

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He put the meat in boxes made of birch bark and hid the boxes by a sweet-water tree, which the white men call a maple tree.

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**Who acts:** Menabozho, white men · **What happens:** put, make, hide, call · **To what, where:** meat, boxes, 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, white men), 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:pg73136:72:3
# text = He put the meat in boxes made of birch bark and hid the boxes by a sweet-water tree, which the white men call a maple tree.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	maple	maple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Menabozho | the meat |  | boxes |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent meat=Theme in box=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | boxes *not said here* |  |  |  | of birch bark | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **hide** | past | Menabozho *not said here* | the boxes |  |  |  | by a water tree | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent box=Patient by tree=Location |
| 4 | **call** | present | the white men | a water tree |  |  |  | a maple tree *obj* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme tree=Result |

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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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