Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 12
The greatest chief comes next, and so on, till the weakest band places its teepees last.
Who acts: greatest chief · What happens: come
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 (greatest chief), 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 | 3 chief | det |
| 2 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 chief | amod |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | next | next | ADV | _ | 4 comes | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 on | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 on | cc |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 on | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 comes | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 places | punct |
| 11 | till | till | ADP | _ | 15 places | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 places | det |
| 13 | weakest | weak | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 places | amod |
| 14 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 places | compound |
| 15 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 comes | obl |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 teepees | nmod:poss |
| 17 | teepees | teepee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 last | nsubj |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 places | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the greatest chief | till the weakest band places | next property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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