Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 9

There is not meat enough in the woods, and the warlike Sioux has now to come to the Indian agency to get his rations.

Who acts: meat, warlike Sioux · What happens: be, have, come, get · To what, where: woods, Indian agency, rations

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 (meat, warlike Sioux), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 meat	advmod
4	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	2 is	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 woods	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woods	det
8	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 is	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 has	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 has	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Sioux	det
12	warlike	warlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Sioux	amod
13	Sioux	Sioux	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 has	nsubj
14	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	conj
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 come	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 come	mark
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 has	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 agency	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 agency	det
20	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 agency	amod
21	agency	agency	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 get	mark
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 come	advcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 rations	nmod:poss
25	rations	ration	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 get	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	meat		the woods; there		enough property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location
2	have	present	the warlike Sioux					tree rules
3	come	to-infinitive	the warlike Sioux not said here		the Indian agency	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to agency=Initial_Location
4	get	to-infinitive	the warlike Sioux not said here	Sioux's rations				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ration=Stimulus

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 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 9