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title: They are now much like the white people, for they live in well-built… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: They are now much like the white people, for they live in well-built houses, attend church, and send their children to school. Who acts: Zuñis, white people. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, with
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 29

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They are now much like the white people, for they live in well-built houses, attend church, and send their children to school.

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**Who acts:** Zuñis, white people · **What happens:** be, live, build, attend, send · **To what, where:** white people, built houses, church, children, school

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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 (Zuñis, white people), 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:pg73136:6:29
# text = They are now much like the white people, for they live in well-built houses, attend church, and send their children to school.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	attend	attend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Zuñis |  |  |  | now | like the white people | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | Zuñis | the white people *not said here* |  | built houses |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme people=Location |
| 3 | **build** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **attend** | present | Zuñis *not said here* | church |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme church=Goal |
| 5 | **send** | infinitive | the white people *not said here* | Zuñis's children |  | school |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to school=Destination |

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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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