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title: This belt was kept in the Penn family and treasured with as much car… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: This belt was kept in the Penn family and treasured with as much care as the chain and medal given to William Penn by the English Parliament; indeed, the medal and the wampum belt each served a like purpose: they were reminders of the promises of a nation. Who acts: medal, belts. A sentence of «Wigw
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 17

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This belt was kept in the Penn family and treasured with as much care as the chain and medal given to William Penn by the English Parliament; indeed, the medal and the wampum belt each served a like purpose: they were reminders of the promises of a nation.

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**Who acts:** medal, belts · **What happens:** keep, treasure, give, serve, be, promise · **To what, where:** belt, Penn family, medal, a, reminders, nation

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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 (medal, belts), 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:pg73136:9:17
# text = This belt was kept in the Penn family and treasured with as much care as the chain and medal given to William Penn by the English Parliament; indeed, the medal and the wampum belt each served a like purpose: they were reminders of the promises of a nation.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Penn	Penn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	treasured	treasure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	medal	medal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl:agent	_	_
23	Penn	Penn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
29	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	medal	medal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	wampum	wampum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
37	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	nsubj	_	_
38	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	obj	_	_
40	like	like	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
43	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
45	reminders	reminder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past · passive |  | this belt |  | the Penn family |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in family=Location |
| 2 | **treasure** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with much care; as the chain and medal | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **give** | participle |  | medal *not said here* |  |  |  | by the English Parliament; William *obl:agent* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **serve** | past | the medal and the wampum belt | a |  |  |  | like purpose | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent a=Attribute |
| 5 | **is a** | past | belts *= belt* | reminders |  |  |  | of the promises of a nation | tree rules |
| 6 | **promise** |  |  | a nation |  |  |  |  | nom promise «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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