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title: Indian tribe always at war with the Sioux; now living in Indian Terr… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Indian tribe always at war with the Sioux; now living in Indian Territory. Who acts: war. 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 120

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Indian tribe always at war with the Sioux; now living in Indian Territory.

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**Who acts:** war · **What happens:** live · **To what, where:** Indian Territory, war

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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 (war), 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:pg73136:86:120
# text = Indian tribe always at war with the Sioux; now living in Indian Territory.
1	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Sioux	Sioux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund | war  Indian tribe with the Sioux *not said here* |  |  | Indian Territory | now |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in territory=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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