Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 2

Among the eastern Indians it was first found to be made of the white and purple parts of clam shells.

Who acts: eastern Indians · What happens: find, make · To what, where: eastern Indians

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 (eastern 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	Among	among	ADP	_	4 Indians	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Indians	det
3	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Indians	amod
4	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 found	nsubj:pass
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	aux:pass
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 found	advmod
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	11 made	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 made	aux:pass
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 found	xcomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	17 parts	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 parts	det
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 parts	amod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 purple	cc
16	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 white	conj
17	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 made	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 shells	case
19	clam	clam	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shells	compound
20	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 parts	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		the eastern Indians				Wampum nsubj:pass; first property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	make	to-infinitive · passive	the eastern Indians not said here					of the white parts of clam shells	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

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 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 2