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title: The Chippewas fought for their new home very bravely, and the Sioux… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Chippewas fought for their new home very bravely, and the Sioux were just as brave in trying to hold what they believed to be the center of the world and nearest like the Happy Hunting Grounds of the future life. Who acts: Chippewas, Sioux. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American In
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 10

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The Chippewas fought for their new home very bravely, and the Sioux were just as brave in trying to hold what they believed to be the center of the world and nearest like the Happy Hunting Grounds of the future life.

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**Who acts:** Chippewas, Sioux · **What happens:** fight, be, try, hold, believe · **To what, where:** center · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chippewas, 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:pg73136:21:10
# text = The Chippewas fought for their new home very bravely, and the Sioux were just as brave in trying to hold what they believed to be the center of the world and nearest like the Happy Hunting Grounds of the future life.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Chippewas	chippewa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	bravely	bravely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Sioux	Sioux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	obj	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	ccomp	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	conj	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	Hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	33	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past | the Chippewas |  |  |  |  | for Chippewas's new home; bravely *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Sioux |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **try** | gerund | the Sioux *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **hold** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Sioux *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **believe** | past | Chippewas *= chippewa* |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the center |  |  |  | of the world | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  | like the Happy Hunting Grounds of the future life | tree rules |

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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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