Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Wampum or Indian Money, sentence 11

He gathered some of the shells and, striking them with sharp flints, strung the pieces on strings of sinew.

Who acts: Hiawatha, sharp flints · What happens: gather, strike, string · To what, where: some, shells, pieces, strings

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IX. Wampum or Indian Money. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hiawatha, sharp flints), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gathered	nsubj
2	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 gathered	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 shells	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shells	det
6	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 some	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 striking	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 striking	punct
9	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gathered	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 striking	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 flints	case
12	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flints	amod
13	flints	flint	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 striking	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 strung	punct
15	strung	string	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 flints	acl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pieces	det
17	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 strung	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 strings	case
19	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pieces	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 sinew	case
21	sinew	sinew	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 strings	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gather	past	Hiawatha	some of the shells			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
2	strike	gerund	Hiawatha not said here	shells = shell		with sharp flints	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with flint=Instrument
3	string	participle	sharp flints not said here	the pieces	strings of sinew		vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme on string=Destination

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.

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Wampum or Indian Money, sentence 11

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Wampum or Indian Money, sentence 11