Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 27

There is a large government school at Leech Lake, and many of the boys and girls have learned the customs and books of the white people, but when they return to their wigwam homes there is little chance to change the home life, except in very simple ways.

Who acts: large government school, many, customs, little chance · What happens: be, learn, return, change · To what, where: customs, home life

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 (large government school, many, customs, little chance), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 school	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 school	amod
5	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 school	compound
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 Lake	case
8	Leech	Leech	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Lake	compound
9	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 school	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 learned	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 learned	cc
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 learned	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 boys	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boys	det
15	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 many	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 girls	cc
17	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 boys	conj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 learned	aux
19	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 is	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 customs	det
21	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 learned	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 books	cc
23	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 customs	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 people	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 people	det
26	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 people	amod
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 books	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 return	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 return	cc
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 return	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 return	nsubj
32	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 learned	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	36 homes	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 homes	nmod:poss
35	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 homes	compound
36	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 return	obl
37	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	38 is	expl
38	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 return	advcl
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 chance	amod
40	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 is	nsubj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 change	mark
42	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 chance	acl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 life	det
44	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 life	compound
45	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 change	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 ways	punct
47	except	except	ADP	_	51 ways	case
48	in	in	ADP	_	51 ways	case
49	very	very	ADV	_	50 simple	advmod
50	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 ways	amod
51	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 change	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	a large government school at Leech Lake		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	learn	present · perfect	many of the boys and girls	the customs and books of the white people			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=Topic
3	return	present	customs = custom			to customs's wigwam homes result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result
4	be	present	little chance		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	change	to-infinitive	little chance not said here	the home life		except simple ways	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient

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, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 27

The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 27