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title: Turkeys are raised for food, and their feather fibers are woven into… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Turkeys are raised for food, and their feather fibers are woven into cloth. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 18

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Turkeys are raised for food, and their feather fibers are woven into cloth.

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**What happens:** raise, weave · **To what, where:** Turkeys, feather fibers, cloth

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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: 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:pg73136:6:18
# text = Turkeys are raised for food, and their feather fibers are woven into cloth.
1	Turkeys	turkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	fibers	fiber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | present · passive |  | Turkeys |  |  |  | for food | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **weave** | present · passive |  | Turkeys's feather fibers |  | cloth |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into cloth=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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