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title: Menabozho gave the woodchuck long claws and soft hair. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Menabozho gave the woodchuck long claws and soft hair. Who acts: Menabozho. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, V. How the Woodchuck Helped Menabozho, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, V. How the Woodchuck Helped Menabozho, sentence 9

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Menabozho gave the woodchuck long claws and soft hair.

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**Who acts:** Menabozho · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** woodchuck

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, V. How the Woodchuck Helped Menabozho. 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:pg73136:74:9
# text = Menabozho gave the woodchuck long claws and soft hair.
1	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	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	woodchuck	woodchuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Menabozho | the woodchuck |  |  |  | long claws and soft hair *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent woodchuck=Recipient claw=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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