Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. How the Copper Mountain Came to Fall, sentence 8

The Portage Indians tell that each tribe wanted the mountain; at last, when many tribes were working together to get out the copper, it was agreed to let one tribe own it; but which tribe?

Who acts: Portage Indians, tribe, many tribes, one tribe · What happens: tell, want, work together, get out, agree, let · To what, where: tribe, mountain, copper, one tribe · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIV. How the Copper Mountain Came to Fall. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Portage Indians, tribe, many tribes, one tribe), 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 Indians	det
2	Portage	Portage	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Indians	compound
3	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 wanted	mark
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 tribe	det
7	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wanted	nsubj
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mountain	det
10	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wanted	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 last	punct
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 last	case
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tell	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 working	punct
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 working	mark
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tribes	amod
17	tribes	tribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 working	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 working	aux
19	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 last	parataxis
20	together	together	ADV	_	19 working	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 get	mark
22	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 working	advcl
23	out	out	ADV	_	22 get	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 copper	det
25	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 get	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 agreed	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 agreed	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 agreed	aux:pass
29	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 last	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 let	mark
31	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 agreed	xcomp
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 tribe	nummod
33	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 let	obj
34	own	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 let	xcomp
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 own	obj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 tribe	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 tribe	cc
38	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	39 tribe	det
39	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the Portage Indians	which tribe		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	past	each tribe	the mountain		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mountain=Theme
3	work together	past · progressive	many tribes		together property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get out	to-infinitive	many tribes not said here	the copper	out property	tree rules
5	agree speech: agree	past · passive		copper		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic
6	let not said to happen	to-infinitive		one tribe		tree rules
7	own	present	one tribe not said here	copper		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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, XIV. How the Copper Mountain Came to Fall, sentence 8

The tree

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. How the Copper Mountain Came to Fall, sentence 8