Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 8
Dark beads were woven into the belt either in square or diamond patterns or in some more irregular shape.
What happens: weave · To what, where: Dark beads, belt
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 | Dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 beads | amod |
| 2 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 woven | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woven | aux:pass |
| 4 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 belt | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 belt | det |
| 7 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woven | obl |
| 8 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 10 square | cc:preconj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 square | case |
| 10 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 belt | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 patterns | cc |
| 12 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 patterns | compound |
| 13 | patterns | pattern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 square | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 shape | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 shape | case |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 shape | nsubj |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 shape | amod |
| 18 | irregular | irregular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shape | amod |
| 19 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 belt | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 woven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | past · passive | Dark beads | the belt either square or diamond patterns or more irregular shape | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into belt=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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