Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 28
Some of the finest work in lace, which has been taught in the Indian schools, has been done by these Chippewas at Leech Lake.
Who acts: Chippewas · What happens: teach, do · To what, where: lace, Indian schools, Some, Leech Lake
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), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 work | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 work | det |
| 4 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 work | amod |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Some | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 lace | case |
| 7 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 work | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taught | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 taught | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 taught | aux:pass |
| 12 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 lace | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 schools | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 schools | det |
| 15 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 schools | amod |
| 16 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 taught | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 work | punct |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 done | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 done | aux:pass |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 Chippewas | case |
| 22 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 Chippewas | det |
| 23 | Chippewas | chippewa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 done | obl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 Lake | case |
| 25 | Leech | Leech | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Lake | compound |
| 26 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 done | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | present · perfect · passive | lace | the Indian schools | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | do | present · perfect · passive | this Chippewas | Some of the finest work in lace | Leech Lake | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
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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