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title: The chiefs of the bands are always ready to follow what the head chi… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The chiefs of the bands are always ready to follow what the head chief of the nation commands. Who acts: chiefs. 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 6

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The chiefs of the bands are always ready to follow what the head chief of the nation commands.

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**Who acts:** chiefs · **What happens:** be, follow

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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 (chiefs), 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:pg73136:19:6
# text = The chiefs of the bands are always ready to follow what the head chief of the nation commands.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	commands	command	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the chiefs of the bands |  |  |  |  | always, ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | to-infinitive | the chiefs of the bands *not said here* |  |  |  |  | what  the head chief of the nation commands *obj* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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