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title: The white and the dark-colored beads were threaded and carefully arr… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The white and the dark-colored beads were threaded and carefully arranged into patterns when belts or other woven pieces of ornament were made. 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 cla
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Wampum Money, sentence 4

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The white and the dark-colored beads were threaded and carefully arranged into patterns when belts or other woven pieces of ornament were made.

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**What happens:** color, thread, arrange, weave, make · **To what, where:** colored beads, patterns, belts

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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:pg73136:9:4
# text = The white and the dark-colored beads were threaded and carefully arranged into patterns when belts or other woven pieces of ornament were made.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	beads	bead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	threaded	thread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	patterns	pattern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	25	mark	_	_
17	belts	belt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	ornament	ornament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **thread** | past · passive |  | the colored beads |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **arrange** | participle |  |  |  | patterns |  | carefully *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into pattern=Product |
| 4 | **weave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | past · passive |  | belts or other woven pieces of ornament |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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