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title: They wear blankets and buckskin skirts, and make a pretty picture if… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: They wear blankets and buckskin skirts, and make a pretty picture if the wigwam is in the background. Who acts: women, wigwam. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian At Home, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 21

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They wear blankets and buckskin skirts, and make a pretty picture if the wigwam is in the background.

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**Who acts:** women, wigwam · **What happens:** wear, make, be · **To what, where:** blankets, pretty picture, background

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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 (women, wigwam), 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:pg73136:13:21
# text = They wear blankets and buckskin skirts, and make a pretty picture if the wigwam is in the background.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	buckskin	buckskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	skirts	skirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	background	background	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | present | women *= woman* | blankets and buckskin skirts |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent blanket=Source |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | women *= woman* *not said here* | a pretty picture |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset picture=Product |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the wigwam |  |  | the background |  |  | 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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