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title: The Sioux women make such beautiful beadwork that a white woman thou… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Dakota or Sioux, with its dependency tree and the
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Dakota or Sioux, sentence 18

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

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

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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 (Sioux women, white woman), 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:pg73136:19:18
# text = The Sioux women make such beautiful beadwork that a white woman thought it wise to teach them to make lace of the choicest kind.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Sioux	sioux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	beadwork	beadwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	expl	_	_
14	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	choicest	choice	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
24	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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