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title: Menabozho found his bow and arrows in the canoe and shot an arrow up… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Menabozho found his bow and arrows in the canoe and shot an arrow upward. 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 8

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Menabozho found his bow and arrows in the canoe and shot an arrow upward.

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**Who acts:** Menabozho · **What happens:** find, shoot · **To what, where:** bow, canoe, arrow

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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:pg73136:75:8
# text = Menabozho found his bow and arrows in the canoe and shot an arrow upward.
1	Menabozho	Menabozho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Menabozho | Menabozho's bow and arrows |  | the canoe |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Topic |
| 2 | **shoot** | past | Menabozho *not said here* | a arrow |  |  |  | upward *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=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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