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title: They showed the other tribes how to make the long strings of bead mo… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: They showed the other tribes how to make the long strings of bead money, and many bands went on strange trails to find the rivers or the lakes where the shells were hidden under the water. Who acts: strings, many bands. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Wampum or Indian Money, sentence 14

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They showed the other tribes how to make the long strings of bead money, and many bands went on strange trails to find the rivers or the lakes where the shells were hidden under the water.

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**Who acts:** strings, many bands · **What happens:** show, make, go, find, hide · **To what, where:** other tribes, long strings, strange trails, rivers, shells, water

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IX. Wampum or Indian Money. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strings, many bands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73136:78:14
# text = They showed the other tribes how to make the long strings of bead money, and many bands went on strange trails to find the rivers or the lakes where the shells were hidden under the water.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	bead	bead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	trails	trail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
35	under	under	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | strings *= string* | the other tribes |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tribe=Recipient |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | strings *= string* *not said here* | the long strings of bead money |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset string=Product |
| 3 | **go** | past | many bands |  |  | strange trails |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on trail=Location |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | many bands *not said here* | the rivers or the lakes |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Topic |
| 5 | **hide** | past · passive |  | the shells |  | the water |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient under water=Location |

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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.

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**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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