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title: She sewed it with strings of sinew saved from the deer whose skin sh… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: She sewed it with strings of sinew saved from the deer whose skin she had carefully tanned. Who acts: smoke. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, A Legend of Minnehaha Falls, sentence 7

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She sewed it with strings of sinew saved from the deer whose skin she had carefully tanned.

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**Who acts:** smoke · **What happens:** sew, save, tan · **To what, where:** suit, sinew, deer, skin

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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 (smoke), 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:pg73136:46:7
# text = She sewed it with strings of sinew saved from the deer whose skin she had carefully tanned.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sewed	sew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sinew	sinew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	tanned	tan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sew** | past | smoke | suit |  |  |  | with strings of sinew | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with string=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **save** | participle |  | sinew *not said here* |  | the deer |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from deer=Source |
| 3 | **tan** | past · perfect · passive |  | skin |  |  |  | smoke *nsubj:pass*; carefully *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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