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title: Menabozho prayed to the Great Manitou that the wind might blow from… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Menabozho prayed to the Great Manitou that the wind might blow from the south. Who acts: Menabozho, wind. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish, sentence 11

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Menabozho prayed to the Great Manitou that the wind might blow from the south.

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**Who acts:** Menabozho, wind · **What happens:** pray, blow

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Menabozho, wind), 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:pg73136:75:11
# text = Menabozho prayed to the Great Manitou that the wind might blow from the south.
1	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Manitou	Manitou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | past | Menabozho |  |  |  |  | to the Great Manitou | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **blow** | might | the wind |  |  |  |  | from the south | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from south=Co-Patient |

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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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