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title: As the Pueblos were and are now less warlike than the roving tribes… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: As the Pueblos were and are now less warlike than the roving tribes which live in tent-like houses, they have had time to invent many useful things. Who acts: roving tribes, houses. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Some Things the Indians Knew Bef
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 14

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As the Pueblos were and are now less warlike than the roving tribes which live in tent-like houses, they have had time to invent many useful things.

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**Who acts:** roving tribes, houses · **What happens:** be, rove, live, have, invent · **To what, where:** like houses, many useful things

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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 (roving tribes, houses), 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:pg73136:6:14
# text = As the Pueblos were and are now less warlike than the roving tribes which live in tent-like houses, they have had time to invent many useful things.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Pueblos	Pueblo	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	warlike	warlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	roving	rove	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	invent	invent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | now | as the Pueblos; than the roving tribes; less, warlike *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rove** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | present | the roving tribes |  |  | like houses |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
| 4 | **have** | present · perfect | houses *= house* |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **invent** | to-infinitive | houses *= house* *not said here* | many useful things |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Result |

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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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