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title: Puk wud jin′ nies. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Puk wud jin′ nies. Who acts: Puk. 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 125

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Puk wud jin′ nies.

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**Who acts:** Puk · **What happens:** wu · **To what, where:** jin nies

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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 (Puk), 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:pg73136:86:125
# text = Puk wud jin′ nies.
1	Puk	Puk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wud	wu	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	jin	jin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	′	′	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	nies	ny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wu** | past | Puk | jin nies |  |  |  |  | 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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