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title: Chippewa word, meaning “grandmother.” — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Chippewa word, meaning “grandmother.” Who acts: Chippewa word. 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 108

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Chippewa word, meaning “grandmother.”

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**Who acts:** Chippewa word · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** grandmother, Chippewa word

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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 (Chippewa word), 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:pg73136:86:108
# text = Chippewa word, meaning “grandmother.”
1	Chippewa	Chippewa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | gerund | Chippewa word *not said here* | grandmother |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Topic |

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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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