Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 29
They were so artistic in their bead and basket work that a lady who saw the point lace made in the mission schools in Japan decided to teach it to all the squaws who would learn the art.
Who acts: lakes, lady, squaws · What happens: be, see, make, decide, teach, learn · To what, where: bead, point lace, mission schools, basket work, lace, squaws
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 (lakes, lady, squaws), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 artistic | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 artistic | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 artistic | advmod |
| 4 | artistic | artistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bead | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bead | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bead | bead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 artistic | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 work | cc |
| 9 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 work | compound |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bead | conj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 decided | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lady | det |
| 13 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 decided | nsubj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lady | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lace | det |
| 17 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lace | compound |
| 18 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 lace | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 schools | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 schools | det |
| 22 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 schools | compound |
| 23 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 made | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Japan | case |
| 25 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 schools | nmod |
| 26 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 work | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 teach | mark |
| 28 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 decided | xcomp |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 teach | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 squaws | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 squaws | det:predet |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 squaws | det |
| 33 | squaws | squaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 teach | obl |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 learn | nsubj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 learn | aux |
| 36 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 squaws | acl:relcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 art | det |
| 38 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 learn | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 artistic | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | lakes = lake | lakes's bead and basket work | artistic property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | past | a lady | the point lace | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lace=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | the point lace not said here | the mission schools in Japan | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | decide | past | a lady | basket work | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | teach speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | a lady not said here | lace | all squaws | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to squaw=Recipient | |||
| 6 | learn | would | all squaws | the art | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Topic |
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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