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title: Menabozho carried the fish oil over and poured it on the pitch; wher… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Menabozho carried the fish oil over and poured it on the pitch; wherever the oil touched the pitch it was never sticky again. Who acts: Menabozho, oil. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish, with its dependency t
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish, sentence 20

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Menabozho carried the fish oil over and poured it on the pitch; wherever the oil touched the pitch it was never sticky again.

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**Who acts:** Menabozho, oil · **What happens:** carry, pour, touch, not be · **To what, where:** fish oil, oil, pitch

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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, oil), 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:pg73136:75:20
# text = Menabozho carried the fish oil over and poured it on the pitch; wherever the oil touched the pitch it was never sticky again.
1	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carried	carry	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	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | Menabozho | the fish oil |  |  |  | over *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Theme |
| 2 | **pour** | past | Menabozho *not said here* | oil |  | the pitch |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **touch** | past | the oil | the pitch |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pitch=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | oil |  |  |  | again | sticky *property* | tree rules |

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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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