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title: Menabozho put his arm around the tree and said: “What is your name,… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Menabozho put his arm around the tree and said: “What is your name, Brother 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 40

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Menabozho put his arm around the tree and said: “What is your name, Brother Tree?”

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**Who acts:** Menabozho · **What happens:** put, say, be · **To what, where:** arm, tree, name · **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:pg73136:72:40
# text = Menabozho put his arm around the tree and said: “What is your name, Brother Tree?”
1	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	around	around	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Menabozho | Menabozho's arm |  | the tree |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arm=Theme around tree=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Menabozho *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | your name |  |  |  | What *nsubj*; your *nmod:poss*; Brother *appos* | tree rules |

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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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