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title: They also have invented hand looms and are blanket weavers. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: They also have invented hand looms and are blanket weavers. Who acts: hand. 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 35

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They also have invented hand looms and are blanket weavers.

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**Who acts:** hand · **What happens:** invent, loom, be · **To what, where:** tools, blanket weavers

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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 (hand), 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:pg73136:17:35
# text = They also have invented hand looms and are blanket weavers.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	looms	loom	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	weavers	weaver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invent** | present · perfect · passive |  | tools *= tool* |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **loom** | present | hand |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | hand *not said here* | blanket weavers |  |  |  |  | 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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