Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 18

The Sioux women make such beautiful beadwork that a white woman thought it wise to teach them to make lace of the choicest kind.

Who acts: Sioux women, white woman · What happens: make, think, teach · To what, where: such beautiful beadwork, women, lace

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 (Sioux women, white woman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 women	det
2	Sioux	sioux	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 women	compound
3	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beadwork	amod
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beadwork	amod
7	beadwork	beadwork	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 thought	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 beadwork	acl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wise	expl
14	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thought	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 teach	mark
16	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 thought	xcomp
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 teach	iobj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 make	mark
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 teach	xcomp
20	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 kind	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 kind	det
23	choicest	choice	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 kind	amod
24	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lace	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	make	present	the Sioux women	such beautiful beadwork		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beadwork=Product
2	think speech: other	past	a white woman	such beautiful beadwork		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	a white woman not said here		women = woman	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	make	to-infinitive	a white woman not said here	lace of the choicest kind		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lace=Product

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 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 18