Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 1

The name the French gave the fierce, strong Dakotas is Sioux, which is the way they pronounced the name given them by their Algonquin neighbors.

Who acts: French, fierce strong Dakotas Sioux, they, name · What happens: give, be, pronounce · To what, where: name, fierce strong Dakotas Sioux, way, them

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Dakota or Sioux. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (French, fierce strong Dakotas Sioux, they, name), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 name	det
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 French	det
4	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Sioux	det
7	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Sioux	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Sioux	punct
9	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Sioux	amod
10	Dakotas	Dakotas	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Sioux	compound
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Sioux	cop
12	Sioux	Sioux	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gave	iobj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 way	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 way	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 way	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Sioux	appos
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pronounced	nsubj
19	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 way	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 name	det
21	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pronounced	obj
22	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 name	acl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 given	obj
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 neighbors	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 neighbors	nmod:poss
26	Algonquin	Algonquin	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 neighbors	compound
27	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 given	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	the French	the name		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sioux=Recipient name=Theme
2	is a	present		the fierce strong Dakotas Sioux		tree rules
3	is a	present	the fierce strong Dakotas Sioux	the way		tree rules
4	pronounce	past	they	the name		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
5	give	participle	the name not said here	them = they	by their Algonquin neighbors	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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.

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 1