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title: After their greeting was over Menabozho went back and found the bird… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: After their greeting was over Menabozho went back and found the birds still feeding on the fish. Who acts: birds. 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 15

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After their greeting was over Menabozho went back and found the birds still feeding on the fish.

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**Who acts:** birds · **What happens:** be, find, feed, greet · **To what, where:** Menabozho, birds

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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 (birds), 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:pg73136:75:15
# text = After their greeting was over Menabozho went back and found the birds still feeding on the fish.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | Menabozho | after birds's greeting | go *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | past |  | the birds |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic |
| 3 | **feed** | gerund |  |  |  |  | still | on the fish | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on fish=Patient |
| 4 | **greet** |  | birds *= bird* |  |  |  |  |  | nom greeting «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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