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title: The bows of strong wood bent by sinew cords and the stone-headed arr… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The bows of strong wood bent by sinew cords and the stone-headed arrows with feather tips were excellent weapons in the Indians’ former methods of warfare and hunting, and a good arrowhead maker was famous throughout a nation. Who acts: bows, good arrowhead maker. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 5

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The bows of strong wood bent by sinew cords and the stone-headed arrows with feather tips were excellent weapons in the Indians’ former methods of warfare and hunting, and a good arrowhead maker was famous throughout a nation.

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**Who acts:** bows, good arrowhead maker · **What happens:** bend, head, be · **To what, where:** strong wood, excellent weapons, former methods

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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 (bows, good arrowhead maker), 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:pg73136:6:5
# text = The bows of strong wood bent by sinew cords and the stone-headed arrows with feather tips were excellent weapons in the Indians’ former methods of warfare and hunting, and a good arrowhead maker was famous throughout a nation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	sinew	sinew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	headed	head	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	tips	tip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	methods	method	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	warfare	warfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	arrowhead	arrowhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	maker	maker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
40	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | participle |  | strong wood *not said here* |  |  |  | by sinew cords and the headed arrows with feather tips | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by cord=Location |
| 2 | **head** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | stone *compound* | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the bows of strong wood | excellent weapons |  | the Indians's former methods of warfare and hunting |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | a good arrowhead maker |  |  |  | throughout a nation | famous *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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