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title: There was much moose fat, so Menabozho made more birch-bark boxes an… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: There was much moose fat, so Menabozho made more birch-bark boxes and hid the fat in them near an oak tree. Who acts: much moose fat, 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
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Menabozho Caught, sentence 5

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There was much moose fat, so Menabozho made more birch-bark boxes and hid the fat in them near an oak tree.

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**Who acts:** much moose fat, Menabozho · **What happens:** be, make, hide · **To what, where:** more bark boxes, fat, oak tree

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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 fat, 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:pg73136:72:5
# text = There was much moose fat, so Menabozho made more birch-bark boxes and hid the fat in them near an oak tree.
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	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
11	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
21	near	near	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	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 fat |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | Menabozho | more bark boxes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Product |
| 3 | **hide** | past | Menabozho *not said here* | the fat |  | a oak tree |  | in boxes *= box* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fat=Patient in they=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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