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title: There was much moose meat, and it would last many weeks. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: There was much moose meat, and it would last many weeks. Who acts: much moose meat, meat. 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 4

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There was much moose meat, and it would last many weeks.

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**Who acts:** much moose meat, meat · **What happens:** be, last

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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 (much moose meat, meat), 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:pg73136:72:4
# text = There was much moose meat, and it would last many weeks.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	moose	moose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | much moose meat |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **last** | would | meat |  |  |  | week |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

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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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