Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 28

Father Hennepin describes the excitement of the game in his Descriptions of Louisiana, published in Paris in 1683.

Who acts: Father · What happens: describe, publish, excite · To what, where: excitement, Descriptions, Paris, game, Louisiana

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 (Father), 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	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 describes	nsubj
2	Hennepin	Hennepin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Father	flat
3	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 excitement	det
5	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 describes	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 game	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 game	det
8	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 excitement	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 Descriptions	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 Descriptions	nmod:poss
11	Descriptions	description	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 describes	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Louisiana	case
13	Louisiana	Louisiana	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Descriptions	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 published	punct
15	published	publish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 Descriptions	acl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 Paris	case
17	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 published	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 1683	case
19	1683	1683	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 published	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 describes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	describe	present	Father	the excitement of the game	Father's Descriptions of Louisiana		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent excitement=Theme
2	publish	participle		Father's Descriptions of Louisiana not said here	Paris	in 1683	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	excite			the game			nom excitement «feeling transitive»: of=patient
4	describe		Father	Louisiana			nom description «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 28