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title: Their hogans, or homes, are not so well made as the Zuñis’ adobe hou… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Their hogans, or homes, are not so well made as the Zuñis’ adobe houses; they are low adobe huts. Who acts: hogans. 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 32

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Their hogans, or homes, are not so well made as the Zuñis’ adobe houses; they are low adobe huts.

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**Who acts:** hogans · **What happens:** not make, be · **To what, where:** hogans, low adobe huts

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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 (hogans), 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:pg73136:17:32
# text = Their hogans, or homes, are not so well made as the Zuñis’ adobe houses; they are low adobe huts.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hogans	hogan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Zuñis	Zuñis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	adobe	adobe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	adobe	adobe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **make** | present · passive |  | dishes's hogans or homes |  |  |  | as the Zuñis's adobe houses; well *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **is a** | present | hogans *= hogan* | low adobe huts |  |  |  |  | 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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