Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 19

It is believed by those who have had charge of it to be a pledge relating to a treaty between the early government of the United States and the Six Nations.

Who acts: those, pledge · What happens: believe, have, be, relate, charge · To what, where: finest, charge, pledge

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 (those, pledge), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 believed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 believed	aux:pass
3	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 those	case
5	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 believed	obl
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 had	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 had	aux
8	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 those	acl:relcl
9	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 charge	nmod
12	to	to	PART	_	15 pledge	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 pledge	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pledge	det
15	pledge	pledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	advcl
16	relating	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 pledge	acl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 treaty	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 treaty	det
19	treaty	treaty	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 relating	obl
20	between	between	ADP	_	23 government	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 government	det
22	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 government	amod
23	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 treaty	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 States	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 States	det
26	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 States	amod
27	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 government	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Nations	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Nations	det
30	Six	Six	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Nations	compound
31	Nations	Nation	PROPN	Number=Plur	27 States	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 believed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	believe	present · passive	those	finest = fine		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
2	have	present · perfect		charge of finest	who nsubj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Patient
3	is a	to-infinitive		a pledge		tree rules
4	relate	gerund	a pledge not said here		to a treaty between the early government of the United States and the Six Nations	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to treaty=Co-Theme
5	charge			finest = fine		nom charge «act 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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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 19