Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 37

The old chief would not let them go until the government promised money to support their families.

Who acts: old chief, men, government · What happens: not let, go, promise, support · To what, where: men, money, families

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 (old chief, men, government), 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 chief	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chief	amod
3	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 let	advmod
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 promised	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 government	det
11	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 promised	nsubj
12	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 go	advcl
13	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 promised	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 support	mark
15	support	support	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 promised	xcomp
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 families	nmod:poss
17	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 support	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not let	would	the old chief	men = man	tree rules
2	go	infinitive	men = man not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	promise speech: promise	past	the government	money	vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent money=Recipient clause=Topic
4	support not said to happen	to-infinitive	the government not said here	men's families	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=Stimulus

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 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 37