Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 31
“There are some so given to the game that they will gamble away even their greatcoat.
Who acts: some, games · What happens: be, give, gamble away · To what, where: game, greatcoat
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 (some, games), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 are | nsubj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 given | advmod |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 some | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 game | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 game | det |
| 9 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 gamble | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gamble | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 gamble | aux |
| 13 | gamble | gamble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 given | advcl |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 gamble | advmod |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 greatcoat | advmod |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 greatcoat | nmod:poss |
| 17 | greatcoat | greatcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gamble | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | some | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | participle | some not said here | the game | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to game=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | gamble away in a quote | future | games = game | games's greatcoat | away property | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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