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title: Among the eastern Indians it was first found to be made of the white… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the eastern Indians it was first found to be made of the white and purple parts of clam shells. Who acts: eastern Indians. 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 2

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Among the eastern Indians it was first found to be made of the white and purple parts of clam shells.

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**Who acts:** eastern Indians · **What happens:** find, make · **To what, where:** eastern Indians

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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 (eastern Indians), 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:pg73136:9:2
# text = Among the eastern Indians it was first found to be made of the white and purple parts of clam shells.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	clam	clam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · passive |  | the eastern Indians |  |  |  | Wampum *nsubj:pass*; first *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive | the eastern Indians *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the white parts of clam shells | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |

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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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