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title: It seems strange that their crude tools could have made such small b… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: It seems strange that their crude tools could have made such small beads so very well. Who acts: It. 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 25

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It seems strange that their crude tools could have made such small beads so very well.

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**Who acts:** It · **What happens:** seem, make · **To what, where:** crude tools

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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 (It), 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:pg73136:6:25
# text = It seems strange that their crude tools could have made such small beads so very well.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	crude	crude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	beads	bead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | It |  |  |  |  | strange, well *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | could · perfect · passive |  | Indians's crude tools |  |  |  | such small beads *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary bead=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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