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title: The Pueblos color the fibers in some manner and weave handsome borde… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Pueblos color the fibers in some manner and weave handsome borders of black, white, or yellow into their baskets. Who acts: Pueblos. 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 pragma
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 38

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The Pueblos color the fibers in some manner and weave handsome borders of black, white, or yellow into their baskets.

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**Who acts:** Pueblos · **What happens:** color, weave · **To what, where:** fibers, manner, handsome borders

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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 (Pueblos), 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:pg73136:17:38
# text = The Pueblos color the fibers in some manner and weave handsome borders of black, white, or yellow into their baskets.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Pueblos	Pueblo	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	color	color	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fibers	fiber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	weave	weave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	baskets	basket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	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 | **color** | present | the Pueblos | the fibers |  | some manner |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiber=Patient |
| 2 | **weave** | infinitive | the Pueblos *not said here* | handsome borders of black |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent border=Product |

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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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