Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 27

It is told by the people who wrote back to England in those early days that the Indians could not be made to understand why they should pay more wampum for anything when it was scarce than when it was plentiful.

Who acts: people, Indians, value · What happens: tell, write back, not make, understand, pay, be · To what, where: value, England, Indians, more wampum · 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 (people, Indians, value), 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 told	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 told	aux:pass
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 people	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 wrote	nsubj
8	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 people	acl:relcl
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 wrote	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 England	case
11	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 wrote	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 days	case
13	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 days	det
14	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 days	amod
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wrote	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 made	obj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Indians	det
18	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 made	nsubj:pass
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 made	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 made	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 made	aux:pass
22	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 days	acl:relcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 understand	mark
24	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 made	advcl
25	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	28 pay	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 pay	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 pay	aux
28	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 understand	ccomp
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 wampum	amod
30	wampum	wampum	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pay	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 anything	case
32	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 pay	obl
33	when	when	SCONJ	_	36 scarce	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 scarce	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 scarce	cop
36	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 pay	advcl
37	than	than	SCONJ	_	41 plentiful	mark
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	41 plentiful	advmod
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 plentiful	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 plentiful	cop
41	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 scarce	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · passive	the people	value				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
2	write back	past	the people		England	day		vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to england=Recipient
3	not make	could · passive		the Indians		that early days		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary that=Product
4	understand	to-infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	pay	should	Indians = indian	more wampum			for anything	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent wampum=Asset for anything=Theme
6	is	past	value				scarce property	tree rules
7	is	past	value				plentiful 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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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 27