Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 15

The northern bands laugh at their southern brothers, and think they have been trying to become different.

Who acts: northern bands, bands · What happens: laugh, think, try, become · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (northern bands, bands), 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 bands	det
2	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bands	amod
3	bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 laugh	nsubj
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 brothers	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brothers	nmod:poss
7	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brothers	amod
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 laugh	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 think	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 think	cc
11	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 laugh	parataxis
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 trying	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 trying	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 trying	aux
15	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 think	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 become	mark
17	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 trying	xcomp
18	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 become	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laugh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	the northern bands	at bands's southern brothers	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	present			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	try	present · perfect · progressive	bands = band		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	become not said to happen	to-infinitive	bands = band not said here	different property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 15