Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 4
His friends and relatives move their teepees wherever this chief thinks best on the land the Great Father in Washington has reserved for them.
Who acts: friends, chief, Great Father · What happens: move, think, reserve · To what, where: teepees, land
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 (friends, chief, Great Father), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friends | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 move | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 relatives | cc |
| 4 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 friends | conj |
| 5 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 teepees | nmod:poss |
| 7 | teepees | teepee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 move | obj |
| 8 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 thinks | advmod |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 chief | nsubj |
| 10 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thinks | nsubj |
| 11 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 move | advcl |
| 12 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 thinks | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 land | det |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thinks | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Father | det |
| 17 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Father | flat |
| 18 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 reserved | nsubj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Washington | case |
| 20 | Washington | Washington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Father | nmod |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 reserved | aux |
| 22 | reserved | reserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 land | acl:relcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 reserved | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 move | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | Dakota's friends and relatives | friends's teepees | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent teepee=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | chief this | on the land; well, wherever property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on land=Topic | ||||
| 3 | reserve | present · perfect | the Great Father in Washington | the land not said here | for friends = friend | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent land=Theme for they=Beneficiary |
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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