---
title: The flint stones were not good tools, and the Indians would use only… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The flint stones were not good tools, and the Indians would use only perfect beads. Who acts: flint stones, Indians. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IX. Wampum or Indian Money, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/78/17/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Wigwam stories told by North American…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/) / [IX. Wampum or Indian Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/78/) / 17

# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Wampum or Indian Money, sentence 17

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The flint stones were not good tools, and the Indians would use only perfect beads.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** flint stones, Indians · **What happens:** not be, use · **To what, where:** good tools, perfect beads

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (flint stones, Indians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73136:78:17
# text = The flint stones were not good tools, and the Indians would use only perfect beads.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	flint	flint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	beads	bead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past | the flint stones | good tools |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | would | the Indians | perfect beads |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bead=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/78/16/)
- next →: [X. Legend of the Arbutus, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/79/1/)
- ↑ back to [IX. Wampum or Indian Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/78/)