Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 6
The chiefs of the bands are always ready to follow what the head chief of the nation commands.
Who acts: chiefs · What happens: be, follow
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 (chiefs), 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 chiefs | det |
| 2 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 bands | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bands | det |
| 5 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chiefs | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ready | cop |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 ready | advmod |
| 8 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 follow | mark |
| 10 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ready | xcomp |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 follow | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chief | det |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chief | compound |
| 14 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 what | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 commands | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 commands | det |
| 17 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 commands | compound |
| 18 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 chief | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the chiefs of the bands | always, ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | to-infinitive | the chiefs of the bands not said here | what the head chief of the nation commands obj | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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