Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 14
The center of the belt is of white wampum with two figures of men wrought in dark beads.
Who acts: center · What happens: be, figure · To what, where: men
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 (center), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 center | det |
| 2 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wampum | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 belt | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 belt | det |
| 5 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 center | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wampum | cop |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wampum | case |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wampum | amod |
| 9 | wampum | wampum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 figures | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 figures | nummod |
| 12 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wampum | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 figures | nmod |
| 15 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 men | amod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 beads | case |
| 17 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 beads | amod |
| 18 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wrought | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wampum | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the center of the belt | of white wampum; with two figures of men | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | figure | men | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=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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