Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 5

The threads were either of vegetable fiber or of deer sinews, and long strings were sometimes made of the bark of the slippery-elm tree.

Who acts: threads, vegetable fiber · What happens: be, make · To what, where: long strings

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 (threads, vegetable fiber), 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 threads	det
2	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fiber	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fiber	cop
4	either	either	CCONJ	_	7 fiber	cc:preconj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 fiber	case
6	vegetable	vegetable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fiber	amod
7	fiber	fiber	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 sinews	cc
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 sinews	case
10	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sinews	compound
11	sinews	sinew	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fiber	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 strings	amod
15	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 made	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux:pass
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 made	advmod
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 fiber	acl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 bark	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bark	det
21	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	27 tree	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tree	det
24	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tree	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 slippery	punct
26	elm	elm	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tree	compound
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bark	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fiber	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the threads					of vegetable fiber or deer sinews; deer sinews conj	tree rules
2	make	past · passive	vegetable fiber or deer sinews not said here	long strings				of the bark of the slippery elm tree; sometimes property	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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 5