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title: Many Sioux boys and girls are in the schools at the agencies learnin… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Dakota or Sioux, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 16

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

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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73136:19:16
# text = Many Sioux boys and girls are in the schools at the agencies learning to write and to read in English.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Sioux	Sioux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	agencies	agency	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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