Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 7

The head chief has learned that the Great Father in Washington has more warriors than he, and so the Sioux are not sent on the warpath any more.

Who acts: head chief, Great Father · What happens: learn, have, not send · To what, where: more warriors, Sioux, warpath

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 (head 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chief	det
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chief	compound
3	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 learned	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 learned	aux
5	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 has	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Father	det
8	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Father	flat
9	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 has	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Washington	case
11	Washington	Washington	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Father	nmod
12	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 learned	ccomp
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 warriors	amod
14	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 has	obj
15	than	than	ADP	_	16 he	case
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 warriors	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sent	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sent	cc
19	so	so	ADV	_	24 sent	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Sioux	det
21	Sioux	Sioux	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 sent	nsubj:pass
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sent	aux:pass
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 sent	advmod
24	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 learned	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 warpath	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 warpath	det
27	warpath	warpath	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sent	obl
28	any	any	ADV	_	29 more	advmod
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 sent	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	learn	present · perfect	the head chief				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	the Great Father in Washington	more warriors		than chief	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Patient
3	not send	present · passive		the Sioux	the warpath		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 7

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 7