Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 26
The prizes are valuable,—furs, clothing, food, everything goes in the excitement of the game.
Who acts: prizes, everything · What happens: be, go, excite · To what, where: excitement, 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 (prizes, everything), 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 prizes | det |
| 2 | prizes | prize | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 valuable | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 valuable | cop |
| 4 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 valuable | punct |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 furs | punct |
| 7 | furs | fur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 valuable | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 clothing | punct |
| 9 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 furs | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 food | punct |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 furs | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 goes | punct |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 goes | nsubj |
| 14 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 furs | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 excitement | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 excitement | det |
| 17 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 goes | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 game | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 game | det |
| 20 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 excitement | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 valuable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the prizes | furs and clothing and food obl; valuable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | present | everything | the excitement of the game | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in excitement=Location | ||||
| 3 | excite | the game | nom excitement «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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