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title: Their very best work is of a cream-white color, and the vases and di… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Their very best work is of a cream-white color, and the vases and dishes are handsomely decorated with colored borders and pictures. Who acts: best work, dishes. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, with its depen
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 29

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Their very best work is of a cream-white color, and the vases and dishes are handsomely decorated with colored borders and pictures.

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**Who acts:** best work, dishes · **What happens:** be, decorate, work · **To what, where:** vases

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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 (best work, dishes), 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:pg73136:17:29
# text = Their very best work is of a cream-white color, and the vases and dishes are handsomely decorated with colored borders and pictures.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	vases	vas	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	handsomely	handsomely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	colored	colored	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | dishes's best work |  |  |  |  | of a white color | tree rules |
| 2 | **decorate** | present · passive |  | the vases and dishes |  |  |  | with colored borders and pictures; handsomely *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with border=Theme |
| 3 | **work** |  | dishes *= dish* |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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