Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 37

The white and colored glass beads now used are worth but little compared with the wampum of early days.

Who acts: white glass · What happens: be, use, compare · To what, where: white glass

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 (white glass), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 glass	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 glass	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 colored	cc
4	colored	colored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 white	conj
5	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 worth	nsubj
6	beads	bead	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 glass	cop
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 used	advmod
8	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 glass	acl
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 worth	cop
10	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 little	cc
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 worth	conj
13	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 worth	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 wampum	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wampum	det
16	wampum	wampum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 compared	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 days	case
18	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 days	amod
19	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wampum	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 worth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the white glass			tree rules
2	use	participle		the white glass not said here	now		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	the white glass			worth property	tree rules
4	be		the white glass not said here				tree rules
5	compare	participle	the white glass not said here			with the wampum of early days	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with wampum=Co-Patient

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 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 37