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title: Here they found the Dakotas, or Sioux, had possession of the beautif… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Here they found the Dakotas, or Sioux, had possession of the beautiful lake region, which was so nearly like the country by the River of Islands in the east. Who acts: Marie, Sioux, beautiful lake region. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Sioux and
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 5

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Here they found the Dakotas, or Sioux, had possession of the beautiful lake region, which was so nearly like the country by the River of Islands in the east.

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**Who acts:** Marie, Sioux, beautiful lake region · **What happens:** find, have, be, possess · **To what, where:** Dakotas, possession, beautiful lake region

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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 (Marie, Sioux, beautiful lake region), 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:pg73136:21:5
# text = Here they found the Dakotas, or Sioux, had possession of the beautiful lake region, which was so nearly like the country by the River of Islands in the east.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	Sioux	Sioux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Marie | the Dakotas |  | here |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dakota=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | past | Sioux | possession of the beautiful lake region |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the beautiful lake region |  |  |  |  | like the country; by the River of Islands in the east; nearly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **possess** |  |  | the beautiful lake region |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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