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title: Lou is i a na (lo͞o′ e ze ȧ′ na̯) — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Lou is i a na (lo͞o′ e ze ȧ′ na̯) Who acts: Lou, e. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Pronouncing Vocabulary of Words Not Found in the Glossary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Pronouncing Vocabulary of Words Not Found in the Glossary, sentence 8

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Lou is i a na (lo͞o′ e ze ȧ′ na̯)

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**Who acts:** Lou, e · **What happens:** be, na̯ · **To what, where:** lo͞o ′

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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 (Lou, e), 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:pg73136:87:8
# text = Lou is i a na (lo͞o′ e ze ȧ′ na̯)
1	Lou	Lou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	na	na	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	lo͞o	lo͞o	X	FW	_	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	′	′	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	e	e	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	nsubj	_	_
10	ze	ze	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat	_	_
11	ȧ	ȧ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	′	′	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	flat:foreign	_	_
13	na̯	na̯	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Lou | a lo͞o ′ |  |  |  | i *nsubj*; na *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **na̯** |  | e |  |  |  |  |  | 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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