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title: The name the French gave the fierce, strong Dakotas is Sioux, which… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The name the French gave the fierce, strong Dakotas is Sioux, which is the way they pronounced the name given them by their Algonquin neighbors. Who acts: French, fierce strong Dakotas Sioux, they, name. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Dakota or 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 1

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The name the French gave the fierce, strong Dakotas is Sioux, which is the way they pronounced the name given them by their Algonquin neighbors.

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**Who acts:** French, fierce strong Dakotas Sioux, they, name · **What happens:** give, be, pronounce · **To what, where:** name, fierce strong Dakotas Sioux, way, them

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Dakota or Sioux. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (French, fierce strong Dakotas Sioux, they, name), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73136:19:1
# text = The name the French gave the fierce, strong Dakotas is Sioux, which is the way they pronounced the name given them by their Algonquin neighbors.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
7	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	Dakotas	Dakotas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	Sioux	Sioux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	Algonquin	Algonquin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the French | the name |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sioux=Recipient name=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the fierce strong Dakotas Sioux |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the fierce strong Dakotas Sioux | the way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pronounce** | past | they | the name |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | participle | the name *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  | by their Algonquin neighbors | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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.

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**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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