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title: The white and colored glass beads now used are worth but little comp… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The white and colored glass beads now used are worth but little compared with the wampum of early days. Who acts: white glass. 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 37

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The white and colored glass beads now used are worth but little compared with the wampum of early days.

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**Who acts:** white glass · **What happens:** be, use, compare · **To what, where:** white glass

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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 (white glass), 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:pg73136:9:37
# text = The white and colored glass beads now used are worth but little compared with the wampum of early days.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	colored	colored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	beads	bead	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wampum	wampum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the white glass |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  | the white glass *not said here* |  |  | now |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | the white glass |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the white glass *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **compare** | participle | the white glass *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the wampum of early days | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with wampum=Co-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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