Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 13

This famous belt is an unusually wide one, having eighteen rows of wampum and nearly three thousand beads, which is proof that it was an important token.

Who acts: famous belt, wide one, eighteen rows, History · What happens: be, have · To what, where: wide one, eighteen rows, important token

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 (famous belt, wide one, eighteen rows, History), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 belt	det
2	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 belt	amod
3	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 one	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 one	det
6	unusually	unusually	ADV	_	7 wide	advmod
7	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 having	punct
10	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 one	acl
11	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 rows	nummod
12	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 having	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 wampum	case
14	wampum	wampum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rows	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 beads	cc
16	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	18 thousand	advmod
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 thousand	compound
18	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 beads	nummod
19	beads	bead	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rows	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 proof	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 proof	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 proof	cop
23	proof	proof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rows	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 token	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 token	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 token	cop
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 token	det
28	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 token	amod
29	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 proof	acl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this famous belt	a wide one		tree rules
2	have	gerund	a wide one not said here	eighteen rows of wampum and thousand beads		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Patient
3	is	present	eighteen rows of wampum and thousand beads		proof property	tree rules
4	is a	past	History	a important token		tree rules

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, Wampum Money, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 13