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title: The Village Indians, or Pueblos of Arizona, still build themselves h… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Village Indians, or Pueblos of Arizona, still build themselves houses of adobe or unburnt brick. Who acts: Village Indians. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 13

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The Village Indians, or Pueblos of Arizona, still build themselves houses of adobe or unburnt brick.

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**Who acts:** Village Indians · **What happens:** build · **To what, where:** Indians

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Village Indians), 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:pg73136:6:13
# text = The Village Indians, or Pueblos of Arizona, still build themselves houses of adobe or unburnt brick.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Village	Village	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Pueblos	Pueblos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Arizona	Arizona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	adobe	adobe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	unburnt	unburnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | infinitive | the Village Indians  Pueblos of Arizona | Indians *= indian* |  |  | still | houses of adobe or unburnt brick *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Beneficiary house=Product |

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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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