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title: Their forms of worship are very strange and sometimes cruel. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Their forms of worship are very strange and sometimes cruel. Who acts: forms, 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses, sentence 61

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Their forms of worship are very strange and sometimes cruel.

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**Who acts:** forms, Pueblos · **What happens:** be, form · **To what, where:** worship

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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 (forms, 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:pg73136:17:61
# text = Their forms of worship are very strange and sometimes cruel.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	worship	worship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
10	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Pueblos's forms of worship |  |  |  |  | strange *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Pueblos's forms of worship *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **form** |  | Pueblos *= pueblo* | worship |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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