---
title: The figures are pictured as clasping each other’s hands. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The figures are pictured as clasping each other’s hands. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/9/15/)

<!-- 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/) / [Wampum Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/9/) / 15

# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 15

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The figures are pictured as clasping each other’s hands.

<!-- .vintro -->
**What happens:** picture, clasp · **To what, where:** figures, hands

<!-- .vabout -->
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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73136:9:15
# text = The figures are pictured as clasping each other’s hands.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	pictured	picture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	clasping	clasp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | present · passive |  | the figures |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **clasp** | gerund |  | each other's hands |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |

<!-- .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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/9/14/)
- next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/9/16/)
- ↑ back to [Wampum Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/9/)