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title: The Zuñi Indians weave handsome wool blankets in handmade looms. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Zuñi Indians weave handsome wool blankets in handmade looms. Who acts: Zuñi Indians. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 21

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The Zuñi Indians weave handsome wool blankets in handmade looms.

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**Who acts:** Zuñi Indians · **What happens:** weave · **To what, where:** handsome wool blankets, handmade looms

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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 (Zuñi Indians), 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:pg73136:17:21
# text = The Zuñi Indians weave handsome wool blankets in handmade looms.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Zuñi	Zuñi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	weave	weave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	handmade	handmade	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	looms	loom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weave** | present | the Zuñi Indians | handsome wool blankets |  | handmade looms |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanket=Product |

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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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