---
title: For example, they say Lakota instead of Dakota. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, they say Lakota instead of Dakota. Who acts: teepees. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/19/14/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Wigwam stories told by North American…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/) / [Dakota or Sioux](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/19/) / 14

# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 14

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
For example, they say Lakota instead of Dakota.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** teepees · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** Lakota · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (teepees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73136:19:14
# text = For example, they say Lakota instead of Dakota.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Lakota	Lakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | teepees *= teepee* | Lakota |  |  |  | for example; instead Dakota | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lakota=Topic |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/19/13/)
- next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/19/15/)
- ↑ back to [Dakota or Sioux](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/19/)