Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 11

There is a very extensive view of the Mississippi at its junction with the Minnesota which is called by the Indians Mendota, or the “gathering of the waters.”

Who acts: extensive view, Indians Mendota · What happens: be, call, view · To what, where: junction, Mississippi · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (extensive view, Indians Mendota), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 view	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 extensive	advmod
5	extensive	extensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 view	amod
6	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Mississippi	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Mississippi	det
9	Mississippi	Mississippi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 view	nmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 junction	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 junction	nmod:poss
12	junction	junction	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 view	nmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 Minnesota	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Minnesota	det
15	Minnesota	Minnesota	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 junction	nmod
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 called	nsubj:pass
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 called	aux:pass
18	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 junction	acl:relcl
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 Mendota	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Mendota	det
21	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 Mendota	compound
22	Mendota	Mendota	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 called	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gathering	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 gathering	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 gathering	det
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 gathering	punct
27	gathering	gathering	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	parataxis
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 waters	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 waters	det
30	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 gathering	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 gathering	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	a extensive view of the Mississippi at view's junction with the Minnesota		there	the gathering of the waters parataxis	tree rules
2	call	present · passive	the Indians Mendota	view's junction with the Minnesota			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
3	view			the Mississippi	view's junction with the Minnesota		nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient at=place

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, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 11