Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 10

The chief of one side drops his ball into the pocket of his bat and tosses it toward the center ground between the stakes.

Who acts: chief · What happens: drop, toss · To what, where: ball, pocket

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Games. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chief	det
2	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drops	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 side	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 side	nummod
5	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chief	nmod
6	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ball	nmod:poss
8	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drops	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 pocket	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pocket	det
11	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drops	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 bat	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 bat	nmod:poss
14	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pocket	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tosses	cc
16	tosses	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 drops	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tosses	obj
18	toward	toward	ADP	_	21 ground	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ground	det
20	center	center	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ground	compound
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tosses	obl
22	between	between	ADP	_	24 stakes	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stakes	det
24	stakes	stake	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ground	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 drops	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	present	the chief of one side	chief's ball		the pocket of chief's bat			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ball=Theme into pocket=Destination
2	toss	present	the chief of one side not said here	ball				toward the center ground between the stakes	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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🌲 Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 10

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 10