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title: They make some use of iron, but their best work is shown in the maki… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: They make some use of iron, but their best work is shown in the making and carving of ornaments and other articles of silver. Who acts: 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 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 34

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They make some use of iron, but their best work is shown in the making and carving of ornaments and other articles of silver.

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**Who acts:** tools · **What happens:** make, show, use, work, article · **To what, where:** use, best work, iron, silver

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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 (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:pg73136:17:34
# text = They make some use of iron, but their best work is shown in the making and carving of ornaments and other articles of silver.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	making	making	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	carving	carving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	articles	article	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | tools *= tool* | some use of iron |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product |
| 2 | **show** | present · passive |  | tools's best work |  |  |  | in the making and carving of ornaments and other articles of silver | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in making=Topic |
| 3 | **use** |  |  | iron |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **work** |  | tools *= tool* |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **article** |  |  | silver |  |  |  |  | nom article «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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