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title: Indian women are sometimes very handsome when young; but the quantit… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Indian women are sometimes very handsome when young; but the quantity of colored earth they use as paint does not hide half the dirt upon their faces. Who acts: Indian women, quantity, paint. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian At Home, wi
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 20

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Indian women are sometimes very handsome when young; but the quantity of colored earth they use as paint does not hide half the dirt upon their faces.

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**Who acts:** Indian women, quantity, paint · **What happens:** be, color, use, not hide · **To what, where:** dirt, faces

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian At Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indian women, quantity, paint), 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:pg73136:13:20
# text = Indian women are sometimes very handsome when young; but the quantity of colored earth they use as paint does not hide half the dirt upon their faces.
1	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
23	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Indian women |  |  |  |  | handsome, sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Indian women *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **use** | present | the quantity of colored earth |  |  |  |  | women *= woman* *nsubj* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **hide** | present · do-support | paint | half dirt |  | women's faces |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dirt=Patient upon face=Location |

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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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