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title: Sun-dried brick used by the Indians and others in the southwestern p… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Sun-dried brick used by the Indians and others in the southwestern part of the United States in the making of walls and huts. Who acts: walls. 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 pragmat
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 6

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Sun-dried brick used by the Indians and others in the southwestern part of the United States in the making of walls and huts.

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**Who acts:** walls · **What happens:** dry, use, make · **To what, where:** Sun dried brick, southwestern part

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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: who acts (walls), 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:pg73136:86:6
# text = Sun-dried brick used by the Indians and others in the southwestern part of the United States in the making of walls and huts.
1	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl:agent	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	southwestern	southwestern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	making	making	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  | Sun dried brick *not said here* |  | the southwestern part of the United States |  | in the making of walls and huts; the Indians and others *obl:agent* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** |  | walls and huts |  |  |  |  |  | nom making «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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