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title: They are not Village Indians, yet are noted for their fine basket we… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: They are not Village Indians, yet are noted for their fine basket weaving. Who acts: Pueblos, fine basket. 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 43

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They are not Village Indians, yet are noted for their fine basket weaving.

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**Who acts:** Pueblos, fine basket · **What happens:** not be, note, weave

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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, fine basket), 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:pg73136:17:43
# text = They are not Village Indians, yet are noted for their fine basket weaving.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	Village	village	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	noted	note	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Pueblos *= pueblo* |  |  |  |  | Indians *obl*; village *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **note** | present · passive | Pueblos *= pueblo* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Pueblos's fine basket | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |
| 3 | **weave** | gerund | Pueblos's fine basket *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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