Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Wampum or Indian Money, sentence 13

He carried the strings of wampum to the Mohawks, and they believe their tribe to have been the first to use it.

Who acts: Hiawatha, strings · What happens: carry, believe, be, use · To what, where: strings, Mohawks, tribe · Speech: someone speaks here

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, strings), 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 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 strings	det
4	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carried	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 wampum	case
6	wampum	wampum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strings	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Mohawks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Mohawks	det
9	Mohawks	mohawk	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carried	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 believe	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 believe	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 believe	nsubj
13	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	parataxis
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 tribe	nmod:poss
15	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 believe	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	20 first	mark
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 first	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 first	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 first	det
20	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 believe	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 use	mark
22	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 first	acl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 use	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past	Hiawatha	the strings of wampum	the Mohawks		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent string=Theme to mohawk=Destination
2	believe	present	strings = string	strings's tribe			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tribe=Stimulus
3	is	to-infinitive · perfect				first property	tree rules
4	use	to-infinitive		tribe			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Wampum or Indian Money, sentence 13