Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 15
Indian girls play the same game and with nearly as much vigor and skill as their brothers.
Who acts: Indian girls · What happens: play · To what, where: same game
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 (Indian girls), 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 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 girls | amod |
| 2 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 play | nsubj |
| 3 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 game | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 game | amod |
| 6 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 play | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 vigor | cc |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 vigor | case |
| 9 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 vigor | amod |
| 12 | vigor | vigor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 game | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 skill | cc |
| 14 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 vigor | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 brothers | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 play | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | Indian girls | the same game and much vigor and skill | as games's brothers | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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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