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title: The ornaments made of silver by the Navajo, as well as the long stri… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The ornaments made of silver by the Navajo, as well as the long strings of turquoise beads, are sometimes remarkable for their beauty. Who acts: ornaments. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, with i
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 23

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The ornaments made of silver by the Navajo, as well as the long strings of turquoise beads, are sometimes remarkable for their beauty.

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**Who acts:** ornaments · **What happens:** make, be · **To what, where:** ornaments

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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 (ornaments), 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:pg73136:6:23
# text = The ornaments made of silver by the Navajo, as well as the long strings of turquoise beads, are sometimes remarkable for their beauty.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Navajo	Navajo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	15	cc	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	fixed	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	turquoise	turquoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	beads	bead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
22	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | the ornaments *not said here* |  |  |  | of silver; by the Navajo  the long strings of turquoise beads | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **is** | present | the ornaments |  |  |  |  | for ornaments's beauty; remarkable, sometimes *property* | tree rules |

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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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