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title: This famous belt is an unusually wide one, having eighteen rows of w… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: This famous belt is an unusually wide one, having eighteen rows of wampum and nearly three thousand beads, which is proof that it was an important token. Who acts: famous belt, wide one, eighteen rows, History. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Wam
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 13

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This famous belt is an unusually wide one, having eighteen rows of wampum and nearly three thousand beads, which is proof that it was an important token.

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**Who acts:** famous belt, wide one, eighteen rows, History · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** wide one, eighteen rows, important token

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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 (famous belt, wide one, eighteen rows, History), 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:pg73136:9:13
# text = This famous belt is an unusually wide one, having eighteen rows of wampum and nearly three thousand beads, which is proof that it was an important token.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	unusually	unusually	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	wampum	wampum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	compound	_	_
18	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	beads	bead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	proof	proof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this famous belt | a wide one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | a wide one *not said here* | eighteen rows of wampum and thousand beads |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | eighteen rows of wampum and thousand beads |  |  |  |  | proof *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | History | a important token |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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