Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 42
The Sioux in southern Minnesota made an uprising during the Civil War.
Who acts: Sioux · What happens: make · To what, where: uprising
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 (Sioux), 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 | 2 Sioux | det |
| 2 | Sioux | Sioux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Minnesota | case |
| 4 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Minnesota | amod |
| 5 | Minnesota | Minnesota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sioux | nmod |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 uprising | det |
| 8 | uprising | uprising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 9 | during | during | ADP | _ | 12 War | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 War | det |
| 11 | Civil | Civil | PROPN | _ | 12 War | flat |
| 12 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the Sioux in southern Minnesota | a uprising | during the Civil War | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uprising=Product |
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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