Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 36
Old belts and strings of beads, so slowly made by hand, are very valuable.
Who acts: Old belts · What happens: make, be · To what, where: Old belts
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 (Old 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 belts | amod |
| 2 | belts | belt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 valuable | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 strings | cc |
| 4 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 belts | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 beads | case |
| 6 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 strings | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 made | advmod |
| 9 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 10 made | advmod |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 belts | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 belts | punct |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 valuable | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 valuable | advmod |
| 16 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 valuable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | Old belts and strings of beads not said here | by hand; slowly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Old belts and strings of beads | valuable 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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