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title: These totem poles are usually put up before each native house. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: These totem poles are usually put up before each native house. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names, sentence 19

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These totem poles are usually put up before each native house.

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**What happens:** put up · **To what, where:** totem poles, native house

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Meaning of Indian Totems and Names. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg73136:14:19
# text = These totem poles are usually put up before each native house.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	totem	totem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
10	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put up** | present · passive |  | this totem poles |  | each native house |  | usually *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before house=Destination |

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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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