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title: Dark beads were woven into the belt either in square or diamond patt… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Dark beads were woven into the belt either in square or diamond patterns or in some more irregular shape. 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 8

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Dark beads were woven into the belt either in square or diamond patterns or in some more irregular shape.

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**What happens:** weave · **To what, where:** Dark beads, belt

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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:pg73136:9:8
# text = Dark beads were woven into the belt either in square or diamond patterns or in some more irregular shape.
1	Dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	beads	bead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc:preconj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	patterns	pattern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
18	irregular	irregular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weave** | past · passive |  | Dark beads |  | the belt either square or diamond patterns or more irregular shape |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into belt=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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