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title: Some of the finest work in lace, which has been taught in the Indian… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 28

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Some of the finest work in lace, which has been taught in the Indian schools, has been done by these Chippewas at Leech Lake.

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**Who acts:** Chippewas · **What happens:** teach, do · **To what, where:** lace, Indian schools, Some, Leech Lake

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73136:21:28
# text = Some of the finest work in lace, which has been taught in the Indian schools, has been done by these Chippewas at Leech Lake.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	Chippewas	chippewa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Leech	Leech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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