Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 18
The plum-stone game was and is yet played by the northern Indian tribes.
Who acts: northern Indian tribes · What happens: play · To what, where: stone 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 (northern Indian tribes), 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 | 5 game | det |
| 2 | plum | plum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stone | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 plum | punct |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 game | compound |
| 5 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 played | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 played | aux:pass |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 played | cc |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 played | aux:pass |
| 9 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 10 played | advmod |
| 10 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 tribes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tribes | det |
| 13 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tribes | amod |
| 14 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tribes | amod |
| 15 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 played | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · passive | the northern Indian tribes | the stone game | yet | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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