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title: Their home was in Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, and th… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Their home was in Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, and the Northwest Territory. Who acts: home. 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 30

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Their home was in Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, and the Northwest Territory.

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**Who acts:** home · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Montana

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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 (home), 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:pg73136:86:30
# text = Their home was in Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, and the Northwest Territory.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Montana	Montana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Minnesota	Minnesota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Northwest	Northwest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | tribes's home |  |  | Montana and North Dakota and Minnesota and the Northwest Territory |  | North Dakota *conj*; Minnesota *conj*; the Northwest Territory *conj* | 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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