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title: Their common cooking ware is much like the dishes seen in wigwams. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Their common cooking ware is much like the dishes seen in wigwams. Who acts: common cooking ware. 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 25

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Their common cooking ware is much like the dishes seen in wigwams.

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**Who acts:** common cooking ware · **What happens:** be, see · **To what, where:** dishes, wigwams

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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 (common cooking ware), 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:pg73136:17:25
# text = Their common cooking ware is much like the dishes seen in wigwams.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ware	ware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	wigwams	wigwam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Indians's common cooking ware |  |  |  |  | like the dishes | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | participle |  | the dishes *not said here* |  | wigwams |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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