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title: The Navajos find time and have the skill to do some very good work i… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Navajos find time and have the skill to do some very good work in metals, although their tools are rude. Who acts: Navajos, tools. 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 pragmati
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 33

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The Navajos find time and have the skill to do some very good work in metals, although their tools are rude.

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**Who acts:** Navajos, tools · **What happens:** find, have, do, be · **To what, where:** skill, good work, metals

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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 (Navajos, tools), 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:pg73136:17:33
# text = The Navajos find time and have the skill to do some very good work in metals, although their tools are rude.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Navajos	Navajo	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	metals	metal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | the Navajos |  |  |  | time |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | the Navajos *not said here* | the skill |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Patient |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | the Navajos *not said here* | some good work |  | metals |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** | present | Navajos's tools |  |  |  |  | rude *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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