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title: These maidens put up their locks in huge puffs over each ear. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: These maidens put up their locks in huge puffs over each ear. Who acts: maidens. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Moki Indians, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Moki Indians, sentence 8

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These maidens put up their locks in huge puffs over each ear.

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**Who acts:** maidens · **What happens:** put up · **To what, where:** locks, huge puffs

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Moki Indians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens), 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:pg73136:18:8
# text = These maidens put up their locks in huge puffs over each ear.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	puffs	puff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put up** | past | this maidens | maidens's locks |  | huge puffs |  | over each ear | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lock=Theme in puff=Destination |

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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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