Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 40

There was a battle, and soldiers fell and much money was spent, but still the chief has not given up the men.

Who acts: battle, soldiers · What happens: be, fall, spend, not give up · To what, where: much money, chief

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 (battle, soldiers), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 battle	det
4	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fell	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fell	cc
7	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 spent	cc
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 money	amod
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spent	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 spent	aux:pass
13	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 fell	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 given	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 given	cc
16	still	still	ADV	_	18 chief	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 chief	det
18	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 given	nsubj:pass
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 given	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 given	advmod
21	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 spent	advcl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 given	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 men	det
24	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 given	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a battle		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	soldiers				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	spend	past · passive		much money			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
4	not give up	present · perfect · passive		the chief		the men obj	tree rules

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 40

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 40