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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 16

This band, wild with fury at what they called the trader’s treachery, broke open his storehouse and destroyed or took all his stores of furs and other articles.

Who acts: bands, band · What happens: call, break, open, destroy, take · To what, where: treachery, storehouse, stores · 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 (bands, band), 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

detnsubjpunctamodcaseoblcasenmodnsubjacl:relcldetnmod:posscaseobjpunctxcompnmod:possobjccconjccconjdet:predetnmod:possobjcasenmodccamodconjpunctrootThisDETbandNOUN,PUNCTwildADJwithADPfuryNOUNatADPwhatPRONtheyPRONcalledVERBtheDETtraderNOUN’sPARTtreacheryNOUN,PUNCTbrokeVERBopenVERBhisPRONstorehouseNOUNandCCONJdestroyedVERBorCCONJtookVERBallDEThisPRONstoresNOUNofADPfursNOUNandCCONJotherADJarticlesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem2 banddet
2bandbandNOUNNumber=Sing16 brokensubj
3,,PUNCT_4 wildpunct
4wildwildADJDegree=Pos2 bandamod
5withwithADP_6 furycase
6furyfuryNOUNNumber=Sing4 wildobl
7atatADP_8 whatcase
8whatwhatPRONPronType=Rel6 furynmod
9theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs10 callednsubj
10calledcallVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 whatacl:relcl
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 traderdet
12tradertraderNOUNNumber=Sing14 treacherynmod:poss
13’s'sPART_12 tradercase
14treacherytreacheryNOUNNumber=Sing10 calledobj
15,,PUNCT_2 bandpunct
16brokebreakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
17openopenVERBVerbForm=Inf16 brokexcomp
18hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 storehousenmod:poss
19storehousestorehouseNOUNNumber=Sing17 openobj
20andandCCONJ_21 destroyedcc
21destroyeddestroyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 brokeconj
22ororCCONJ_23 tookcc
23tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 destroyedconj
24allallDETPronType=Tot26 storesdet:predet
25hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 storesnmod:poss
26storesstoreNOUNNumber=Plur23 tookobj
27ofofADP_28 furscase
28fursfurNOUNNumber=Plur26 storesnmod
29andandCCONJ_31 articlescc
30otherotherADJDegree=Pos31 articlesamod
31articlesarticleNOUNNumber=Plur28 fursconj
32..PUNCT_16 brokepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1callpastbands = bandthe trader's treacheryvn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent treachery=Recipient
2breakpastthis bandtree rules
3openinfinitivethis band not said heretrader's storehousevn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location storehouse=Theme
4destroypastthis band not said herevn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5takepastthis band not said heretrader's stores of furs and other articlesvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent store=Theme

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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