Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 5

Here they found the Dakotas, or Sioux, had possession of the beautiful lake region, which was so nearly like the country by the River of Islands in the east.

Who acts: Marie, Sioux, beautiful lake region · What happens: find, have, be, possess · To what, where: Dakotas, possession, beautiful lake region

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, Sioux, beautiful lake region), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 found	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Dakotas	det
5	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 found	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
8	Sioux	Sioux	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Sioux	punct
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	conj
11	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 region	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 region	det
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 region	amod
15	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 region	compound
16	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 possession	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 country	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 country	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 country	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 nearly	advmod
21	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	24 country	advmod
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 country	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 country	det
24	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 region	appos
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 River	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 River	det
27	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 country	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Islands	case
29	Islands	Island	PROPN	Number=Plur	27 River	nmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 east	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 east	det
32	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Islands	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	Marie	the Dakotas	here		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dakota=Topic
2	have	past	Sioux	possession of the beautiful lake region			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Patient
3	is	past	the beautiful lake region			like the country; by the River of Islands in the east; nearly property	tree rules
4	possess			the beautiful lake region			nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient

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 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 5