Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 16

Many Sioux boys and girls are in the schools at the agencies learning to write and to read in English.

Who acts: Many Sioux boys, agencies · What happens: be, learn, write, read · To what, where: schools, English

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Dakota or Sioux. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many Sioux boys, agencies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boys	amod
2	Sioux	Sioux	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 boys	compound
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 schools	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 girls	cc
5	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 boys	conj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 schools	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 schools	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 schools	det
9	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 agencies	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 agencies	det
12	agencies	agency	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 schools	nmod
13	learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 agencies	acl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 write	mark
15	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 learning	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 read	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 read	mark
18	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 write	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 English	case
20	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 read	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 schools	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Many Sioux boys and girls	the schools	at the agencies	tree rules
2	learn	gerund	the agencies not said here			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	write	to-infinitive	the agencies not said here			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	read	to-infinitive	the agencies not said here	English		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 16