Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 12
The contending tribes fought fiercely to hold or to obtain this place, for here these red men, with their love for the beautiful in nature, had decided was where many of their gods liked best to stay.
Who acts: contending tribes, men · What happens: contend, fight, hold, obtain, decide, be · To what, where: place, gods
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 (contending tribes, men), 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 tribes | det |
| 2 | contending | contend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 tribes | amod |
| 3 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fought | nsubj |
| 4 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 4 fought | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hold | mark |
| 7 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fought | xcomp |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 obtain | cc |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 obtain | mark |
| 10 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hold | conj |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 obtain | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 here | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 here | case |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 obtain | parataxis |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 men | det |
| 17 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 men | amod |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 here | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 love | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 love | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 love | nmod:poss |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 obtain | parataxis |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 beautiful | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 beautiful | det |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 love | acl:relcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 nature | case |
| 27 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 beautiful | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 decided | punct |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 decided | aux |
| 30 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 fought | parataxis |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 many | cop |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 many | advmod |
| 33 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 decided | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 gods | case |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 gods | nmod:poss |
| 36 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 many | nmod |
| 37 | liked | like | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 gods | acl |
| 38 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 37 liked | parataxis |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 stay | mark |
| 40 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 best | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contend | gerund | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | fight | past | the contending tribes | fiercely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hold | to-infinitive | the contending tribes not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | obtain | to-infinitive | the contending tribes not said here | this place | men's love parataxis | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset place=Theme | |||
| 5 | decide | past · perfect | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is | past | of men's gods; many property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | like | participle | men's gods not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 8 | stay | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 9 | love | men = man | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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