Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 16

Always, at these games, the old men and squaws sit or stand at the outside of the ball ground, a mass of interested spectators.

Who acts: old men · What happens: sit, stand · To what, where: games, outside

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 (old men), 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	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 sit	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Always	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 games	case
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 games	det
5	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sit	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 games	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 men	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 men	amod
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sit	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 squaws	cc
11	squaws	squaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 men	conj
12	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 stand	cc
14	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sit	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 outside	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 outside	det
17	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stand	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 ground	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ground	det
20	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ground	compound
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 outside	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 mass	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 mass	det
24	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 outside	appos
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 spectators	case
26	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 spectators	amod
27	spectators	spectator	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 mass	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	the old men and squaws			this games		always property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at game=Location
2	stand	present	the old men and squaws not said here			the outside of the ball ground			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at outside=Location

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 16

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 16