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title: A tribe from North Carolina which joined the Iroquois in 1712. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: A tribe from North Carolina which joined the Iroquois in 1712. Who acts: tribe. 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 156

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A tribe from North Carolina which joined the Iroquois in 1712.

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**Who acts:** tribe · **What happens:** join · **To what, where:** Iroquois, 1712

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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 (tribe), 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:pg73136:86:156
# text = A tribe from North Carolina which joined the Iroquois in 1712.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Carolina	Carolina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Iroquois	Iroquois	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1712	1712	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | past | a tribe from North Carolina | the Iroquois |  | 1712 |  | which *nsubj* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iroquois=Patient |

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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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