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title: This band, wild with fury at what they called the trader’s treachery… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: This band, wild with fury at what they called the trader’s treachery, broke open his storehouse and destroyed or took all his stores of furs and other articles. Who acts: bands, band. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Sioux and Chippewas of Minneso
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 16

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This band, wild with fury at what they called the trader’s treachery, broke open his storehouse and destroyed or took all his stores of furs and other articles.

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**Who acts:** bands, band · **What happens:** call, break, open, destroy, take · **To what, where:** treachery, storehouse, stores · **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 (bands, band), 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:pg73136:21:16
# text = This band, wild with fury at what they called the trader’s treachery, broke open his storehouse and destroyed or took all his stores of furs and other articles.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	trader	trader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	treachery	treachery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	storehouse	storehouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	stores	store	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	furs	fur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	articles	article	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | bands *= band* | the trader's treachery |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent treachery=Recipient |
| 2 | **break** | past | this band |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **open** | infinitive | this band *not said here* | trader's storehouse |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location storehouse=Theme |
| 4 | **destroy** | past | this band *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take** | past | this band *not said here* | trader's stores of furs and other articles |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent store=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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