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title: The threads were either of vegetable fiber or of deer sinews, and lo… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The threads were either of vegetable fiber or of deer sinews, and long strings were sometimes made of the bark of the slippery-elm tree. Who acts: threads, vegetable fiber. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Wampum Money, with its dependency tree an
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 5

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The threads were either of vegetable fiber or of deer sinews, and long strings were sometimes made of the bark of the slippery-elm tree.

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**Who acts:** threads, vegetable fiber · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** long strings

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Wampum Money. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (threads, vegetable fiber), 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:pg73136:9:5
# text = The threads were either of vegetable fiber or of deer sinews, and long strings were sometimes made of the bark of the slippery-elm tree.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc:preconj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	vegetable	vegetable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fiber	fiber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	sinews	sinew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	elm	elm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the threads |  |  |  |  | of vegetable fiber or deer sinews; deer sinews *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive | vegetable fiber or deer sinews *not said here* | long strings |  |  |  | of the bark of the slippery elm tree; sometimes *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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