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title: It is made of short poles or brush bent over, fastened together, and… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: It is made of short poles or brush bent over, fastened together, and covered hastily with skins, blankets, or other covering. 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 clau
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 167

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It is made of short poles or brush bent over, fastened together, and covered hastily with skins, blankets, or other covering.

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**What happens:** make, bend over, fasten, cover · **To what, where:** brushwood, short poles

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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:pg73136:86:167
# text = It is made of short poles or brush bent over, fastened together, and covered hastily with skins, blankets, or other covering.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	brush	brush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	over	over	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
17	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	covering	covering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | brushwood |  |  |  | of short poles or brush | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **bend over** | participle |  | short poles or brush *not said here* |  |  |  | over *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fasten** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with skins and blankets or other covering; hastily *property* | 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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