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title: There is not meat enough in the woods, and the warlike Sioux has now… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: There is not meat enough in the woods, and the warlike Sioux has now to come to the Indian agency to get his rations. Who acts: meat, warlike Sioux. 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 e
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 9

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There is not meat enough in the woods, and the warlike Sioux has now to come to the Indian agency to get his rations.

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**Who acts:** meat, warlike Sioux · **What happens:** be, have, come, get · **To what, where:** woods, Indian agency, rations

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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 (meat, warlike Sioux), 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:pg73136:19:9
# text = There is not meat enough in the woods, and the warlike Sioux has now to come to the Indian agency to get his rations.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	warlike	warlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Sioux	Sioux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	agency	agency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	rations	ration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | meat |  |  | the woods; there |  | enough *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
| 2 | **have** | present | the warlike Sioux |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | the warlike Sioux *not said here* |  |  | the Indian agency | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to agency=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | the warlike Sioux *not said here* | Sioux's rations |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ration=Stimulus |

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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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