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title: The building of Fort Snelling at this point and the arrival of white… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The building of Fort Snelling at this point and the arrival of white men put a stop to the battles, and neither tribe could claim Mendota. Who acts: building, tribe, white men. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, wit
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 13

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The building of Fort Snelling at this point and the arrival of white men put a stop to the battles, and neither tribe could claim Mendota.

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**Who acts:** building, tribe, white men · **What happens:** snell, put, claim, arrive · **To what, where:** point, stop, Mendota

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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 (building, tribe, white men), 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:pg73136:21:13
# text = The building of Fort Snelling at this point and the arrival of white men put a stop to the battles, and neither tribe could claim Mendota.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Fort	Fort	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	Snelling	snell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	claim	claim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
27	Mendota	Mendota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snell** | gerund | the building of Fort *not said here* |  |  | this point and the arrival of white men |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | past | the building of Fort | a stop |  |  |  | to the battles | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent stop=Goal |
| 3 | **claim** *speech: other* | could | neither tribe | Mendota |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mendota=Topic |
| 4 | **arrive** |  | white men |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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