Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 13
The ball is thrown and contended for until one side succeeds in throwing it beyond the bounds of the opposite party.
Who acts: one side · What happens: throw, contend, succeed · To what, where: ball, bounds
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 (one side), 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 ball | det |
| 2 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thrown | aux:pass |
| 4 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 contended | cc |
| 6 | contended | contend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thrown | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 contended | obl |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 succeeds | mark |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 side | nummod |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 succeeds | nsubj |
| 11 | succeeds | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thrown | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 throwing | mark |
| 13 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 succeeds | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 throwing | obj |
| 15 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 17 bounds | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bounds | det |
| 17 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 throwing | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 party | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 party | det |
| 20 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 party | amod |
| 21 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bounds | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | present · passive | the ball | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | contend | participle | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | succeed | present | one side | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | throw | gerund | one side not said here | ball | the bounds of the opposite party | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme beyond bound=Destination |
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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