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title: The greatest chief comes next, and so on, till the weakest band plac… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The greatest chief comes next, and so on, till the weakest band places its teepees last. Who acts: greatest chief. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Dakota or Sioux, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 12

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The greatest chief comes next, and so on, till the weakest band places its teepees last.

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**Who acts:** greatest chief · **What happens:** come

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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 (greatest chief), 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:pg73136:19:12
# text = The greatest chief comes next, and so on, till the weakest band places its teepees last.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	next	next	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	till	till	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	weakest	weak	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
14	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	teepees	teepee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the greatest chief |  |  |  | till the weakest band places | next *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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