Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 12
Then the screaming, howling mob of players tears across the field to the place where the ball may fall again.
Who acts: screaming mob, ball · What happens: scream, howl, tear, fall · To what, where: field
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 (screaming mob, ball), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 tears | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mob | det |
| 3 | screaming | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 mob | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 howling | punct |
| 5 | howling | howl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 screaming | conj |
| 6 | mob | mob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tears | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 players | case |
| 8 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mob | nmod |
| 9 | tears | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 field | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 field | det |
| 12 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tears | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tears | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 fall | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ball | det |
| 18 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fall | nsubj |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 fall | aux |
| 20 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 place | acl:relcl |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 fall | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | howl | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | tear | present | the screaming mob of players | the field | then | to the place | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination | ||
| 4 | fall | may | the ball | again | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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