Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 17
This belt was kept in the Penn family and treasured with as much care as the chain and medal given to William Penn by the English Parliament; indeed, the medal and the wampum belt each served a like purpose: they were reminders of the promises of a nation.
Who acts: medal, belts · What happens: keep, treasure, give, serve, be, promise · To what, where: belt, Penn family, medal, a, reminders, nation
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 (medal, belts), 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 | 2 belt | det |
| 2 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | aux:pass |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 family | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 family | det |
| 7 | Penn | Penn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 family | compound |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 treasured | cc |
| 10 | treasured | treasure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 kept | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 care | case |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 care | amod |
| 14 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 treasured | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 chain | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chain | det |
| 17 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 treasured | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 medal | cc |
| 19 | medal | medal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chain | conj |
| 20 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 medal | acl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 William | case |
| 22 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 given | obl:agent |
| 23 | Penn | Penn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 William | flat |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 Parliament | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Parliament | det |
| 26 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Parliament | amod |
| 27 | Parliament | Parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 given | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 medal | punct |
| 29 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 32 medal | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 indeed | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 medal | det |
| 32 | medal | medal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 served | nsubj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 belt | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 belt | det |
| 35 | wampum | wampum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 belt | compound |
| 36 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 medal | conj |
| 37 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 served | nsubj |
| 38 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | parataxis |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 served | obj |
| 40 | like | like | ADP | _ | 41 purpose | case |
| 41 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 served | obl |
| 42 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 45 reminders | punct |
| 43 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 reminders | nsubj |
| 44 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 reminders | cop |
| 45 | reminders | reminder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kept | conj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 promises | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 promises | det |
| 48 | promises | promise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 reminders | nmod |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 nation | case |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 nation | det |
| 51 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 promises | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · passive | this belt | the Penn family | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in family=Location | ||||
| 2 | treasure | participle | with much care; as the chain and medal | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | give | participle | medal not said here | by the English Parliament; William obl:agent | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | serve | past | the medal and the wampum belt | a | like purpose | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent a=Attribute | |||
| 5 | is a | past | belts = belt | reminders | of the promises of a nation | tree rules | |||
| 6 | promise | a nation | nom promise «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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