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title: Such uses of belts of wampum were common among the different tribes… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Such uses of belts of wampum were common among the different tribes of 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 22

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Such uses of belts of wampum were common among the different tribes of Indians.

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**What happens:** use, be

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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: 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:pg73136:9:22
# text = Such uses of belts of wampum were common among the different tribes of Indians.
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	belts	belt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	wampum	wampum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of belts of wampum; among the different tribes of Indians; common *property* | 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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