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title: “And that is why we go and trade with them for the copper with which… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: “And that is why we go and trade with them for the copper with which to make the rings we give our women and children,” say the Portage or Carrier Indians of Manitoba. Who acts: that, we, copper, Portage. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIV. How 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. How the Copper Mountain Came to Fall, sentence 15

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“And that is why we go and trade with them for the copper with which to make the rings we give our women and children,” say the Portage or Carrier Indians of Manitoba.

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**Who acts:** that, we, copper, Portage · **What happens:** be, go, trade, make, give, say · **To what, where:** rings, women · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIV. How the Copper Mountain Came to Fall. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, we, copper, Portage), 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:pg73136:83:15
# text = “And that is why we go and trade with them for the copper with which to make the rings we give our women and children,” say the Portage or Carrier Indians of Manitoba.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	trade	trade	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	iobj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
29	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Portage	portage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	31	appos	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Manitoba	Manitoba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  |  | with voices *= voice*; for the copper | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **trade** *in a quote* | present | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the copper | the rings |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ring=Product |
| 5 | **give** *in a quote* | present | we | the rings *not said here* | our women and children |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | the Portage |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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