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title: They carved curious shell ornaments, which are often found in southe… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: They carved curious shell ornaments, which are often found in southern mounds. Who acts: Cherokee. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes, sentence 13

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They carved curious shell ornaments, which are often found in southern mounds.

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**Who acts:** Cherokee · **What happens:** carve, find · **To what, where:** curious shell ornaments, southern mounds

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Customs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Other Tribes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cherokee), 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:pg73136:16:13
# text = They carved curious shell ornaments, which are often found in southern mounds.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carved	carve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	mounds	mound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | past | Cherokee | curious shell ornaments |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ornament=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | present · passive |  | curious shell ornaments |  | southern mounds |  | often *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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