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title: The Siwash Indian of Puget Sound hollows out from a single log a fin… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Siwash Indian of Puget Sound hollows out from a single log a fine canoe with decorated prow. Who acts: Siwash Indian. 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 pragmat
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 3

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The Siwash Indian of Puget Sound hollows out from a single log a fine canoe with decorated prow.

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**Who acts:** Siwash Indian · **What happens:** hollow out, decorate · **To what, where:** fine canoe, single log

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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 (Siwash Indian), 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:pg73136:6:3
# text = The Siwash Indian of Puget Sound hollows out from a single log a fine canoe with decorated prow.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Siwash	Siwash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Puget	Puget	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Sound	Sound	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	hollows	hollow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	prow	prow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hollow out** | present | the Siwash Indian | a fine canoe |  | a single log |  | of Puget Sound; with decorated prow | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme of sound=Source |
| 2 | **decorate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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