Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 2
The prairies give wide room for the games in summer, and the ice on the many lakes serves as winter ball grounds for them.
Who acts: prairies, ice · What happens: give, serve · To what, where: wide room
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 (prairies, ice), 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 prairies | det |
| 2 | prairies | prairie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 give | nsubj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 room | amod |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 games | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 games | det |
| 8 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 room | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 summer | case |
| 10 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 games | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 serves | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 serves | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ice | det |
| 14 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 serves | nsubj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 lakes | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lakes | det |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lakes | amod |
| 18 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ice | nmod |
| 19 | serves | serve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 give | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 grounds | case |
| 21 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ball | compound |
| 22 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grounds | compound |
| 23 | grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 19 serves | nmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 grounds | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | the prairies | wide room | for the games in summer | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent room=Theme for game=Asset | |||
| 2 | serve | the ice on the many lakes | as ball grounds for games | tree rules |
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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