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title: Many moons ago the Indians living about Hudson Bay all went to a cer… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Many moons ago the Indians living about Hudson Bay all went to a certain place in the west for their copper. Who acts: Indians, Many moons. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIV. How the Copper Mountain Came to Fall, with its dependency tree and th
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. How the Copper Mountain Came to Fall, sentence 6

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Many moons ago the Indians living about Hudson Bay all went to a certain place in the west for their copper.

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**Who acts:** Indians, Many moons · **What happens:** live, go · **To what, where:** certain place

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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 (Indians, Many moons), 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:pg73136:83:6
# text = Many moons ago the Indians living about Hudson Bay all went to a certain place in the west for their copper.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
6	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Hudson	Hudson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund | the Indians *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about Hudson Bay | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about bay=Location |
| 2 | **go** | past | Many moons |  |  | a certain place in the west for Indians's copper |  | the Indians *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location |

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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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