--- title: Their roving habits as hunters gave them little time for house-build… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics description: Their roving habits as hunters gave them little time for house-building, and so their homes were simply tents made of strips of bark or, better yet, of large buffalo or deer hides, neatly sewed together for this purpose. Who acts: hunters, homes, roving habits. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunters, homes, roving habits), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg73136:6:11 # text = Their roving habits as hunters gave them little time for house-building, and so their homes were simply tents made of strips of bark or, better yet, of large buffalo or deer hides, neatly sewed together for this purpose. 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 roving roving NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 habits habit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 4 as as SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 19 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 simply simply ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 tents tent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 22 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 strips strip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 30 advmod _ _ 30 yet yet ADV RB _ 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 buffalo buffalo NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 deer deer NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 37 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 neatly neatly ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 sewed sew VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 conj _ _ 41 together together ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 for for ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 44 det _ _ 44 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | hunters | | points *= point* | | time | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | past | points's homes | tents | | | | simply *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | participle | | tents *not said here* | | | | of strips of bark; of large buffalo or deer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **hide** | present | points's roving habits and tents | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **sew** | participle | points's roving habits and tents *not said here* | | | | | for this purpose; neatly, together *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for purpose=Beneficiary | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/6/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/6/12/) - ↑ back to [Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/6/)