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title: Navajo (Nä′ vä hō). — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Navajo (Nä′ vä hō). Who acts: Nä. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 103

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Navajo (Nä′ vä hō).

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**Who acts:** Nä · **What happens:** hō · **To what, where:** Navajo

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Key to Marks of Pronunciation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nä), 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:pg73136:86:103
# text = Navajo (Nä′ vä hō).
1	Navajo	navajo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Nä	Nä	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	vä	vä	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	hō	hō	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hō** |  | Nä |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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