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title: It is a great battle; when there is a storm Unktahe sends the thunde… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a great battle; when there is a storm Unktahe sends the thunder-birds back to the sky, sometimes.” Who acts: tribe, storm, great battle. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VII. the Thunder-bird of the Dakotas, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. the Thunder-bird of the Dakotas, sentence 31

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It is a great battle; when there is a storm Unktahe sends the thunder-birds back to the sky, sometimes.”

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**Who acts:** tribe, storm, great battle · **What happens:** be, send · **To what, where:** great battle, thunder birds, sky

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VII. the Thunder-bird of the Dakotas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tribe, storm, great battle), 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:pg73136:76:31
# text = It is a great battle; when there is a storm Unktahe sends the thunder-birds back to the sky, sometimes.”
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	Unktahe	Unktahe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
13	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | tribe | a great battle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | present | a storm |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | present | a great battle | the thunder birds |  | the sky |  | sometimes *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bird=Theme to sky=Destination |

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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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