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title: One day Menabozho went fishing with hook and line in Gitchee Gumee,… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: One day Menabozho went fishing with hook and line in Gitchee Gumee, the Big Sea Water. Who acts: Menabozho. 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 2

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One day Menabozho went fishing with hook and line in Gitchee Gumee, the Big Sea Water.

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**Who acts:** Menabozho · **What happens:** go, fish

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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), 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:pg73136:75:2
# text = One day Menabozho went fishing with hook and line in Gitchee Gumee, the Big Sea Water.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	fishing	fish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	xcomp	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Gitchee	Gitchee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	Gumee	Gumee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	Big	Big	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Menabozho |  |  |  | day |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fish** | gerund | Menabozho *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with hook in Gitchee and the Big Sea Water and line | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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