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title: The center of the belt is of white wampum with two figures of men wr… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The center of the belt is of white wampum with two figures of men wrought in dark beads. Who acts: center. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Wampum Money, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 14

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The center of the belt is of white wampum with two figures of men wrought in dark beads.

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**Who acts:** center · **What happens:** be, figure · **To what, where:** men

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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 (center), 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:pg73136:9:14
# text = The center of the belt is of white wampum with two figures of men wrought in dark beads.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	wampum	wampum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	beads	bead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the center of the belt |  |  |  |  | of white wampum; with two figures of men | tree rules |
| 2 | **figure** |  |  | men |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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