Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 18
Wampum belts of great historic value are kept by the Onondaga Indians; the finest of these is called the George Washington belt.
Who acts: Onondaga Indians · What happens: keep, call · To what, where: Wampum belts, finest · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Onondaga Indians), 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 | Wampum | wampum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 belts | compound |
| 2 | belts | belt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 value | case |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 value | amod |
| 5 | historic | historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 value | amod |
| 6 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 belts | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 kept | aux:pass |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Indians | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Indians | det |
| 11 | Onondaga | Onondaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Indians | compound |
| 12 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 kept | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 called | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 finest | det |
| 15 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 called | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 these | case |
| 17 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 finest | nmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 called | aux:pass |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 kept | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 belt | det |
| 21 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 belt | compound |
| 22 | Washington | Washington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 George | flat |
| 23 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 called | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present · passive | the Onondaga Indians | Wampum belts of great historic value | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | present · passive | the finest of these | the George belt xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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