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title: A brushwood tent-like house used by the Apaches and other roving tri… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: A brushwood tent-like house used by the Apaches and other roving tribes. 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 166

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A brushwood tent-like house used by the Apaches and other roving tribes.

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**What happens:** use, rove · **To what, where:** tent like 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:pg73136:86:166
# text = A brushwood tent-like house used by the Apaches and other roving tribes.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	brushwood	brushwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Apaches	apache	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	roving	rove	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle |  | a tent like house  brushwood *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Apaches and other roving tribes | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rove** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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