Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 14

The Great Father in Washington made a treaty with the Chippewas whereby they hold much of their hard-won lake region as long as they keep their treaty promises; now that there is peace between the Indian nations they are willing to admit that each had many heroes in war and council.

Who acts: Great Father, tribes, peace · What happens: make, hold, win, keep, be, admit · To what, where: treaty, much, treaty promises, many heroes, war · 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 (Great Father, tribes, peace), 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 Father	det
2	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Father	amod
3	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Washington	case
5	Washington	Washington	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Father	nmod
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 treaty	det
8	treaty	treaty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 Chippewas	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Chippewas	det
11	Chippewas	chippewa	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	obl
12	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	14 hold	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hold	nsubj
14	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 made	advcl
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hold	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	22 region	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 region	nmod:poss
18	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 region	amod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 hard	punct
20	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 region	amod
21	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 region	compound
22	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 much	nmod
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 long	advmod
24	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 hold	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 keep	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 keep	nsubj
27	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 long	advcl
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 promises	nmod:poss
29	treaty	treaty	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 promises	compound
30	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 keep	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 willing	punct
32	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 willing	advmod
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 is	mark
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 is	expl
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 willing	cop
36	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 willing	nsubj
37	between	between	ADP	_	40 nations	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 nations	det
39	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 nations	amod
40	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 peace	nmod
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 willing	nsubj
42	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 willing	cop
43	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 made	parataxis
44	to	to	PART	_	45 admit	mark
45	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 willing	xcomp
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 had	mark
47	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	48 had	advmod
48	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 admit	ccomp
49	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 heroes	amod
50	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 had	obj
51	in	in	ADP	_	52 war	case
52	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 heroes	nmod
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 council	cc
54	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 war	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the Great Father in Washington	a treaty			with the Chippewas	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treaty=Product
2	hold	present	tribes = tribe	much of tribes's hard won lake region			long, whereby property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme
3	win	participle						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	keep	present	tribes = tribe	tribes's treaty promises				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
5	is	present	peace between the Indian nations			now	tribes = tribe nsubj; willing property	tree rules
6	admit speech: other	to-infinitive	peace between the Indian nations not said here					vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	have	past		many heroes	war and council			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Patient
8	promise		tribes = tribe					nom promise «communication 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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 14

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 14