Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 48
The present chief of all the Chippewas is also a minister of the same church and an able leader of his people.
Who acts: present chief · What happens: be · To what, where: minister
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 (present chief), 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 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chief | amod |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 minister | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Chippewas | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 Chippewas | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Chippewas | det |
| 7 | Chippewas | chippewa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chief | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 minister | cop |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 minister | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 minister | det |
| 11 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 church | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 church | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 church | amod |
| 15 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 minister | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 leader | cc |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 leader | det |
| 18 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 leader | amod |
| 19 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 church | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 people | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 people | nmod:poss |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 leader | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 minister | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the present chief of all Chippewas | a minister | of the same church and a able leader of son's people | 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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