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title: The wearing of wampum in any quantity meant wealth and position. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The wearing of wampum in any quantity meant wealth and position. Who acts: wearing wampum. 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 32

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The wearing of wampum in any quantity meant wealth and position.

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**Who acts:** wearing wampum · **What happens:** wear, mean · **To what, where:** wealth

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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 (wearing wampum), 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:pg73136:9:32
# text = The wearing of wampum in any quantity meant wealth and position.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	compound	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	obl	_	_
4	wampum	wampum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | past | the wearing wampum in any quantity | wealth and position |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Topic |

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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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