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title: The handsomely embroidered moccasins were and are now good specimens… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The handsomely embroidered moccasins were and are now good specimens of woman’s work and love for beauty of coloring and design. Who acts: embroidered moccasins, woman. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Some Things the Indians Knew Before White Men Came, sentence 7

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The handsomely embroidered moccasins were and are now good specimens of woman’s work and love for beauty of coloring and design.

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**Who acts:** embroidered moccasins, woman · **What happens:** embroider, be, work · **To what, where:** good specimens

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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 (embroidered moccasins, woman), 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:pg73136:6:7
# text = The handsomely embroidered moccasins were and are now good specimens of woman’s work and love for beauty of coloring and design.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	handsomely	handsomely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	moccasins	moccasin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	specimens	specimen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	coloring	coloring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	design	design	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embroider** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | handsomely *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the embroidered moccasins | good specimens |  |  | now | of woman's work for beauty of coloring and design and love | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** |  | woman |  |  |  |  | for beauty of coloring and design | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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