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title: His friends and relatives move their teepees wherever this chief thi… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: His friends and relatives move their teepees wherever this chief thinks best on the land the Great Father in Washington has reserved for them. Who acts: friends, chief, Great Father. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Dakota or Sioux, with its depen
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 4

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His friends and relatives move their teepees wherever this chief thinks best on the land the Great Father in Washington has reserved for them.

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**Who acts:** friends, chief, Great Father · **What happens:** move, think, reserve · **To what, where:** teepees, land

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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 (friends, chief, Great Father), 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:pg73136:19:4
# text = His friends and relatives move their teepees wherever this chief thinks best on the land the Great Father in Washington has reserved for them.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	teepees	teepee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
10	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
11	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
18	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Washington	Washington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	reserved	reserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | present | Dakota's friends and relatives | friends's teepees |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent teepee=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | chief  this |  |  |  |  | on the land; well, wherever *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on land=Topic |
| 3 | **reserve** | present · perfect | the Great Father in Washington | the land *not said here* |  |  |  | for friends *= friend* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent land=Theme for they=Beneficiary |

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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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