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title: The mud turtle will sit on a stone and keep watch for Menabozho. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The mud turtle will sit on a stone and keep watch for Menabozho. Who acts: mud turtle. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IV. How the Kingfisher Got His Ring and His Ruffle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IV. How the Kingfisher Got His Ring and His Ruffle, sentence 14

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The mud turtle will sit on a stone and keep watch for Menabozho.

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**Who acts:** mud turtle · **What happens:** sit, keep · **To what, where:** stone, watch

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IV. How the Kingfisher Got His Ring and His Ruffle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mud turtle), 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:pg73136:73:14
# text = The mud turtle will sit on a stone and keep watch for Menabozho.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | future | the mud turtle |  |  | a stone |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | the mud turtle *not said here* | watch |  |  |  | for Menabozho | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=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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