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title: They were so artistic in their bead and basket work that a lady who… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Ju
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 29

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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.

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**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

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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 (lakes, lady, squaws), 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:pg73136:21:29
# text = 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.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	artistic	artistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	bead	bead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	mission	mission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	33	det:predet	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	squaws	squaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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