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title: Each band of Chippewas has yet many stories to tell of the terrible… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Each band of Chippewas has yet many stories to tell of the terrible battles with the “nadoway-sioux,” as the French trappers and hunters call the Algonquin word which means “hidden enemies.” Who acts: band, French trappers, Algonquin word. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 8

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Each band of Chippewas has yet many stories to tell of the terrible battles with the “nadoway-sioux,” as the French trappers and hunters call the Algonquin word which means “hidden enemies.”

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**Who acts:** band, French trappers, Algonquin word · **What happens:** have, tell, call, mean · **To what, where:** many stories, Algonquin word, hidden enemies · **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 (band, French trappers, Algonquin word), 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:pg73136:21:8
# text = Each band of Chippewas has yet many stories to tell of the terrible battles with the “nadoway-sioux,” as the French trappers and hunters call the Algonquin word which means “hidden enemies.”
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Chippewas	Chippewas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	nadoway	nadoway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	sioux	sioux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	trappers	trapper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Algonquin	Algonquin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | each band of Chippewas | many stories |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | each band of Chippewas *not said here* | many stories *not said here* |  |  |  | of the terrible battles with the nadoway sioux | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | present | the French trappers and hunters | the Algonquin word |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Recipient |
| 4 | **mean** | present | the Algonquin word | hidden enemies |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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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