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title: They raise turkeys, and, as they are good weavers, they sometimes us… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: They raise turkeys, and, as they are good weavers, they sometimes use the turkey feathers in weaving a downy cloth. 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 pragmati
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 41

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They raise turkeys, and, as they are good weavers, they sometimes use the turkey feathers in weaving a downy cloth.

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**Who acts:** Pueblos · **What happens:** raise, be, use, weave · **To what, where:** turkeys, turkey feathers, downy cloth

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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:pg73136:17:41
# text = They raise turkeys, and, as they are good weavers, they sometimes use the turkey feathers in weaving a downy cloth.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	raise	raise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	turkeys	turkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	weavers	weaver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
15	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	turkey	turkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	downy	downy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | present | Pueblos *= pueblo* | turkeys |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turkey=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Pueblos *= pueblo* |  |  |  |  | as good weavers | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | present | Pueblos *= pueblo* | the turkey feathers |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient |
| 4 | **weave** | gerund | Pueblos *= pueblo* *not said here* | a downy cloth |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=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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