🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Wampum or Indian Money, sentence 14

They showed the other tribes how to make the long strings of bead money, and many bands went on strange trails to find the rivers or the lakes where the shells were hidden under the water.

Who acts: strings, many bands · What happens: show, make, go, find, hide · To what, where: other tribes, long strings, strange trails, rivers, shells, water

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 (strings, many bands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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