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title: These Village Indians make use of a plant called soaproot, the root… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: These Village Indians make use of a plant called soaproot, the root of which will make water foam and will cleanse one’s skin the same as the white man’s soap. Who acts: Village Indians, plant, root. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indians Wh
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 47

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These Village Indians make use of a plant called soaproot, the root of which will make water foam and will cleanse one’s skin the same as the white man’s soap.

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**Who acts:** Village Indians, plant, root · **What happens:** make, call, cleanse, use · **To what, where:** use, soaproot, water foam, one skin, plant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Village Indians, plant, root), 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:pg73136:17:47
# text = These Village Indians make use of a plant called soaproot, the root of which will make water foam and will cleanse one’s skin the same as the white man’s soap.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	Village	Village	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	soaproot	soaproot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	cleanse	cleanse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obj	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | this Village Indians | use of a plant |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product |
| 2 | **call** | participle | a plant *not said here* | soaproot |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | future | the root | water foam |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset foam=Product |
| 4 | **cleanse** | future | the root *not said here* | one skin |  |  |  | as the white man's soap | tree rules |
| 5 | **use** |  |  | a plant |  |  |  |  | nom use «act 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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