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title: These Zuñi houses are built around two plazas, or squares, with seve… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: These Zuñi houses are built around two plazas, or squares, with several streets and covered ways to connect them with the other parts of the town. 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 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 16

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These Zuñi houses are built around two plazas, or squares, with several streets and covered ways to connect them with the other parts of the town.

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**What happens:** build, cover, connect · **To what, where:** Zuñi houses, ways, houses

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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: 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:pg73136:17:16
# text = These Zuñi houses are built around two plazas, or squares, with several streets and covered ways to connect them with the other parts of the town.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	Zuñi	Zuñi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	around	around	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	plazas	plaza	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	squares	square	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	connect	connect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | present · passive |  | this Zuñi houses |  |  |  | with several streets; two plazas or squares *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary plaza=Product |
| 2 | **cover** | past |  | ways |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **connect** | to-infinitive |  | houses *= house* |  |  |  | with the other parts of the town | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient with part=Co-Patient |

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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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