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title: Wah′ be gwan′ ne͞e Wah kan′ Wah kan′ de͞e Wah kan′ Ä tē Wah kan′ e o… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Wah′ be gwan′ ne͞e Wah kan′ Wah kan′ de͞e Wah kan′ Ä tē Wah kan′ e on ton′ ka Wä′ wä tāis′ sa Wē′ enk Win′ ni wis′ si Wŭn′ a̤u mŏn Who acts: Wah, sa enk Win. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Pronouncing Vocabulary of Words Not Found in the Glossar
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Pronouncing Vocabulary of Words Not Found in the Glossary, sentence 16

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Wah′ be gwan′ ne͞e Wah kan′ Wah kan′ de͞e Wah kan′ Ä tē Wah kan′ e on ton′ ka Wä′ wä tāis′ sa Wē′ enk Win′ ni wis′ si Wŭn′ a̤u mŏn

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**Who acts:** Wah, sa enk Win · **What happens:** be, ′

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Pronouncing Vocabulary of Words Not Found in the Glossary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wah, sa enk Win), 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:pg73136:87:16
# text = Wah′ be gwan′ ne͞e Wah kan′ Wah kan′ de͞e Wah kan′ Ä tē Wah kan′ e on ton′ ka Wä′ wä tāis′ sa Wē′ enk Win′ ni wis′ si Wŭn′ a̤u mŏn
1	Wah	Wah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	′	′	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	gwan	gwan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	′	′	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	ne͞e	ne͞e	ADV	FW	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	Wah	Wah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	kan	kan	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	′	′	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Wah	Wah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	kan	kan	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	′	′	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat:foreign	_	_
13	de͞e	de͞e	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat:foreign	_	_
14	Wah	Wah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	kan	kan	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	14	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	′	′	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	Ä	Ä	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	tē	tē	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:desc	_	_
19	Wah	Wah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	kan	kan	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	′	′	X	FW	_	22	compound	_	_
22	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	ton	ton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	ka	ka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	advmod	_	_
27	Wä	Wä	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	′	′	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	wä	wä	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	tāis	tāis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	′	′	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
32	sa	sa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
33	Wē	Wē	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	enk	enk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Win	within	X	GW	_	43	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	ni	no	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
39	wis	wis	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	si	si	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
42	Wŭn	Wŭn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
44	a̤u	a̤u	X	FW	_	45	compound	_	_
45	mŏn	mŏn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** |  | Wah |  |  |  |  | Wah and Wah *obl*; gwan *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **′** |  | sa enk Win  ′ ni |  |  |  |  | a̤u mŏn *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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