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title: Y.; they are now living upon reservations in Indian Territory, Wisco… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Y.; they are now living upon reservations in Indian Territory, Wisconsin, and Ontario, Can. Who acts: tribes. 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 21

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Y.; they are now living upon reservations in Indian Territory, Wisconsin, and Ontario, Can.

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**Who acts:** tribes · **What happens:** live

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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 (tribes), 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:pg73136:86:21
# text = Y.; they are now living upon reservations in Indian Territory, Wisconsin, and Ontario, Can.
1	Y	y	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	reservations	reservation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Wisconsin	Wisconsin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Ontario	Ontario	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
19	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | can · present | tribes *= tribe* |  |  |  | now | Y *compound* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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