Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 4
The white and the dark-colored beads were threaded and carefully arranged into patterns when belts or other woven pieces of ornament were made.
What happens: color, thread, arrange, weave, make · To what, where: colored beads, patterns, 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: 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 | 2 white | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 threaded | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beads | det |
| 5 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 colored | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 dark | punct |
| 7 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 beads | amod |
| 8 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 threaded | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 threaded | aux:pass |
| 10 | threaded | thread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 white | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 arranged | cc |
| 12 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 13 arranged | advmod |
| 13 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 threaded | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 patterns | case |
| 15 | patterns | pattern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 arranged | obl |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 made | mark |
| 17 | belts | belt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 made | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 pieces | cc |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pieces | amod |
| 20 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 pieces | amod |
| 21 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 belts | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 ornament | case |
| 23 | ornament | ornament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pieces | nmod |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 made | aux:pass |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 arranged | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 white | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | color | participle | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | thread | past · passive | the colored beads | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | arrange | participle | patterns | carefully property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into pattern=Product | ||||
| 4 | weave | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | make | past · passive | belts or other woven pieces of ornament | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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