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title: They make water-tight baskets and dishes of fiber, and these are oft… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: They make water-tight baskets and dishes of fiber, and these are often exchanged with the Tent Indians for dried meat and other food. Who acts: Pueblos, Tent Indians. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men C
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 16

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They make water-tight baskets and dishes of fiber, and these are often exchanged with the Tent Indians for dried meat and other food.

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**Who acts:** Pueblos, Tent Indians · **What happens:** make, exchange, dry · **To what, where:** tight baskets, these

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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 (Pueblos, Tent 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:pg73136:6:16
# text = They make water-tight baskets and dishes of fiber, and these are often exchanged with the Tent Indians for dried meat and other food.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	baskets	basket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	fiber	fiber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	exchanged	exchange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Tent	Tent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	obl:agent	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Pueblos *= pueblo* | tight baskets and dishes of fiber |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset basket=Product |
| 2 | **exchange** | present · passive | the Tent Indians | these |  |  |  | for dried meat and other food; often *property* | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme for meat=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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