Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 4

They built their wigwam fires farther westward each year, until they reached what is now northern Minnesota.

Who acts: Marie · What happens: build, reach, be, fire · To what, where: northern Minnesota

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 (Marie), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 built	nsubj
2	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fires	nmod:poss
4	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fires	compound
5	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 farther	nsubj
6	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 built	advmod
7	westward	westward	ADV	_	9 year	advmod
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 farther	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reached	punct
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 reached	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 reached	nsubj
13	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 built	conj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 Minnesota	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 Minnesota	cop
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 Minnesota	advmod
17	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Minnesota	amod
18	Minnesota	Minnesota	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 reached	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	Marie			far property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	reach	past	Marie				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		northern Minnesota	now	what nsubj	tree rules
4	fire		Marie				nom fire «event 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 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 4