Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 6

The Chippewas had no wish to go back, and their warriors and chiefs were too brave to think that even the fierce western tribes could conquer them.

Who acts: Chippewas, warriors, fierce western tribes · What happens: have, go back, be, think, conquer · To what, where: wish, warriors · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Chippewas, warriors, fierce western tribes), 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 Chippewas	det
2	Chippewas	chippewa	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 wish	det
5	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wish	acl
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 brave	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 brave	cc
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 warriors	nmod:poss
12	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 brave	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 chiefs	cc
14	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 warriors	conj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 brave	cop
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 brave	advmod
17	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 think	mark
19	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 brave	csubj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 conquer	mark
21	even	even	ADV	_	25 tribes	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tribes	det
23	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tribes	amod
24	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tribes	amod
25	tribes	tribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 conquer	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 conquer	aux
27	conquer	conquer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 think	ccomp
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 conquer	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Chippewas	no wish		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient
2	go back	to-infinitive	the Chippewas not said here	no wish not said here		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	Chippewas's warriors and chiefs		brave property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	conquer	could	the fierce western tribes	warriors = warrior		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 6