Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 17

The ball game in some form, it seems, has been the national game on American soil since before American history began.

Who acts: it, ball game, American history · What happens: seem, be, begin · To what, where: ball game, national game, American soil

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 (it, ball game, American history), 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	3 game	det
2	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 game	compound
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 game	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 form	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 form	det
6	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 game	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 game	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seems	nsubj
9	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 game	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 game	punct
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 game	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 game	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 game	det
14	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 game	amod
15	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 soil	case
17	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 soil	amod
18	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 game	nmod
19	since	since	SCONJ	_	23 began	mark
20	before	before	SCONJ	_	23 began	mark
21	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 history	amod
22	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 began	nsubj
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 game	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 game	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	seem	present	it	the ball game in some form not said here		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme game=Attribute
2	is a	present · perfect	the ball game in some form	the national game	American soil	tree rules
3	begin	past	American history			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 17

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 17