Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 22
Such uses of belts of wampum were common among the different tribes of Indians.
What happens: use, be
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: 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 uses | amod |
| 2 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 belts | case |
| 4 | belts | belt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 common | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wampum | case |
| 6 | wampum | wampum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 belts | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 common | cop |
| 8 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 uses | obl |
| 9 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 tribes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tribes | det |
| 11 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tribes | amod |
| 12 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 common | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Indians | case |
| 14 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 tribes | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 uses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | of belts of wampum; among the different tribes of Indians; common property | tree rules |
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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