Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 24

It was necessary for the whites in the very early times to have this Indian money ready when they wished to purchase furs or other supplies of their wild neighbors.

Who acts: belts · What happens: be, have, wish, purchase · To what, where: Indian money, furs

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 (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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 necessary	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 necessary	cop
3	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 whites	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 whites	det
6	whites	white	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 necessary	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 times	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 times	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 early	advmod
10	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 times	amod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 whites	nmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 have	mark
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 necessary	advcl
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 money	det
15	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 money	amod
16	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
17	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 money	amod
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 wished	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wished	nsubj
20	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 have	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 purchase	mark
22	purchase	purchase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wished	xcomp
23	furs	fur	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 purchase	obj
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 supplies	cc
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 supplies	amod
26	supplies	supplies	NOUN	Number=Ptan	23 furs	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 neighbors	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 neighbors	nmod:poss
29	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 neighbors	amod
30	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 supplies	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 necessary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			for the whites in the early times; necessary property	tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive		this Indian money		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
3	wish	past	belts = belt			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	purchase not said to happen	to-infinitive	belts = belt not said here	furs or other supplies of belts's wild neighbors		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fur=Theme

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 24

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 24