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title: When Menabozho waked out of his sleep he saw a squirrel sitting on t… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: When Menabozho waked out of his sleep he saw a squirrel sitting on the canoe beside him. Who acts: Menabozho, squirrel. 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 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VI. Menabozho Swallowed By a Large Fish, sentence 4

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When Menabozho waked out of his sleep he saw a squirrel sitting on the canoe beside him.

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**Who acts:** Menabozho, squirrel · **What happens:** wake, see, sit, sleep · **To what, where:** sleep, squirrel, canoe

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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, squirrel), 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:pg73136:75:4
# text = When Menabozho waked out of his sleep he saw a squirrel sitting on the canoe beside him.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	waked	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake** | past | Menabozho |  |  | Menabozho's sleep |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | past | Menabozho | a squirrel |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer squirrel=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sit** | gerund | a squirrel *not said here* |  |  | the canoe |  | beside Menabozho | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on canoe=Location |
| 4 | **sleep** |  | Menabozho |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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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