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title: Here Ampata embroidered the moccasins with colored quills and grasse… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Here Ampata embroidered the moccasins with colored quills and grasses; these moccasins were for her husband and her children. Who acts: Ampata, moccasins. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, with its dependency tree and t
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 5

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Here Ampata embroidered the moccasins with colored quills and grasses; these moccasins were for her husband and her children.

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**Who acts:** Ampata, moccasins · **What happens:** embroider, be · **To what, where:** moccasins

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ampata, moccasins), 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:pg73136:46:5
# text = Here Ampata embroidered the moccasins with colored quills and grasses; these moccasins were for her husband and her children.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Ampata	Ampata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	moccasins	moccasin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	colored	colored	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	quills	quill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	grasses	grass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	moccasins	moccasin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embroider** | past | Ampata | the moccasins |  | here |  | with colored quills and grasses | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent moccasin=Destination with quill=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | this moccasins |  |  |  |  | for smoke's husband and smoke's children; smoke *nmod:poss*; smoke's children *conj* | tree rules |

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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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