Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 13

The building of Fort Snelling at this point and the arrival of white men put a stop to the battles, and neither tribe could claim Mendota.

Who acts: building, tribe, white men · What happens: snell, put, claim, arrive · To what, where: point, stop, Mendota

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 (building, tribe, white 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	2 building	det
2	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Fort	case
4	Fort	Fort	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 building	nmod
5	Snelling	snell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 building	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 point	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 point	det
8	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Snelling	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 arrival	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 arrival	det
11	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 point	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 men	case
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 men	amod
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 arrival	nmod
15	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stop	det
17	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 battles	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 battles	det
20	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 put	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 claim	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 claim	cc
23	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	24 tribe	det
24	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 claim	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 claim	aux
26	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 put	advcl
27	Mendota	Mendota	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 claim	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	snell	gerund	the building of Fort not said here		this point and the arrival of white men		tree rules
2	put	past	the building of Fort	a stop		to the battles	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent stop=Goal
3	claim speech: other	could	neither tribe	Mendota			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mendota=Topic
4	arrive		white men				nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 13