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title: Many travelers have brought home fine specimens of Zuñi dishes, for… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Many travelers have brought home fine specimens of Zuñi dishes, for their town is not far from the railroad. Who acts: 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 the pragmatics of ever
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 30

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Many travelers have brought home fine specimens of Zuñi dishes, for their town is not far from the railroad.

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**Who acts:** town · **What happens:** bring, be · **To what, where:** Many travelers

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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 (town), 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:pg73136:17:30
# text = Many travelers have brought home fine specimens of Zuñi dishes, for their town is not far from the railroad.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	travelers	traveler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	specimens	specimen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Zuñi	Zuñi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	railroad	railroad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present · perfect · passive |  | Many travelers |  |  |  | fine specimens of Zuñi dishes *obj*; home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination specimen=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | dishes's town |  |  |  |  | for the railroad; far *property* | tree rules |

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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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