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title: The Chippewas had no wish to go back, and their warriors and chiefs… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Chippewas had no wish to go back, and their warriors and chiefs were too brave to think that even the fierce western tribes could conquer them. Who acts: Chippewas, warriors, fierce western tribes. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Sioux and Ch
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 6

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The Chippewas had no wish to go back, and their warriors and chiefs were too brave to think that even the fierce western tribes could conquer them.

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**Who acts:** Chippewas, warriors, fierce western tribes · **What happens:** have, go back, be, think, conquer · **To what, where:** wish, warriors · **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, warriors, fierce western tribes), 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:pg73136:21:6
# text = The Chippewas had no wish to go back, and their warriors and chiefs were too brave to think that even the fierce western tribes could conquer them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Chippewas	chippewa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	csubj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	conquer	conquer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Chippewas | no wish |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient |
| 2 | **go back** | to-infinitive | the Chippewas *not said here* | no wish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | Chippewas's warriors and chiefs |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **conquer** | could | the fierce western tribes | warriors *= warrior* |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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