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title: The town of Zuñi is built upon a hill, about forty feet above the ba… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The town of Zuñi is built upon a hill, about forty feet above the bank of the river Zuñi; it covers about fifteen acres. Who acts: history. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 11

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The town of Zuñi is built upon a hill, about forty feet above the bank of the river Zuñi; it covers about fifteen acres.

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**Who acts:** history · **What happens:** build, cover · **To what, where:** town, fifteen acres

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (history), 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:pg73136:17:11
# text = The town of Zuñi is built upon a hill, about forty feet above the bank of the river Zuñi; it covers about fifteen acres.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Zuñi	Zuñi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
14	above	above	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	Zuñi	Zuñi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	covers	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	acres	acre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | present · passive |  | the town of Zuñi |  |  |  | upon a hill; forty feet above the bank of the river *conj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **cover** | present | history | fifteen acres |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme acre=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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