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title: It blew the great fish to the north shore of Gitchee Gumee, where No… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: It blew the great fish to the north shore of Gitchee Gumee, where Nokomis lived. Who acts: wind, Nokomis. 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 13

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It blew the great fish to the north shore of Gitchee Gumee, where Nokomis lived.

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**Who acts:** wind, Nokomis · **What happens:** blow, live · **To what, where:** great fish, north shore

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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 (wind, Nokomis), 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:pg73136:75:13
# text = It blew the great fish to the north shore of Gitchee Gumee, where Nokomis lived.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	north	north	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Gitchee	Gitchee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	Gumee	Gumee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
15	Nokomis	Nokomis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | wind | the great fish | the north shore of Gitchee |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fish=Patient to shore=Recipient |
| 2 | **live** | past | Nokomis |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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