Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 8

Each band of Chippewas has yet many stories to tell of the terrible battles with the “nadoway-sioux,” as the French trappers and hunters call the Algonquin word which means “hidden enemies.”

Who acts: band, French trappers, Algonquin word · What happens: have, tell, call, mean · To what, where: many stories, Algonquin word, hidden enemies · 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 (band, French trappers, Algonquin word), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 band	det
2	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Chippewas	case
4	Chippewas	Chippewas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 band	nmod
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	yet	yet	ADV	_	7 many	advmod
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stories	amod
8	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 tell	mark
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stories	acl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 battles	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 battles	det
13	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 battles	amod
14	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tell	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	20 sioux	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sioux	det
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 sioux	punct
18	nadoway	nadoway	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sioux	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 nadoway	punct
20	sioux	sioux	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 battles	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 call	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 trappers	det
25	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 trappers	amod
26	trappers	trapper	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 call	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hunters	cc
28	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 trappers	conj
29	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 word	det
31	Algonquin	Algonquin	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 word	compound
32	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 call	obj
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 means	nsubj
34	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 word	acl:relcl
35	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 enemies	punct
36	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 enemies	amod
37	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 means	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	each band of Chippewas	many stories		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	each band of Chippewas not said here	many stories not said here	of the terrible battles with the nadoway sioux	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	present	the French trappers and hunters	the Algonquin word		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Recipient
4	mean	present	the Algonquin word	hidden enemies		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 8