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title: Indian circular house or tent made of poles covered with skins or cl… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Indian circular house or tent made of poles covered with skins or cloth. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 148

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Indian circular house or tent made of poles covered with skins or cloth.

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**What happens:** make, cover · **To what, where:** tent, poles, Indian circular house

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Key to Marks of Pronunciation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg73136:86:148
# text = Indian circular house or tent made of poles covered with skins or cloth.
1	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	circular	circular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | tent *not said here* |  |  |  | of poles | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  | poles *not said here* |  |  |  | with skins or cloth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with skin=Theme |

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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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