Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 32

Those who conduct the game scream at the top of their voices when they rattle the platter; and they strike their shoulders so hard as to make themselves black and blue with the blow.”

Who acts: Those, games · What happens: conduct, rattle, strike, make · To what, where: game scream, top, platter, shoulders, games

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 (Those, 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	Those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 conduct	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 conduct	nsubj
3	conduct	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 scream	det
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scream	compound
6	scream	scream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conduct	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 top	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 top	det
9	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conduct	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 voices	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 voices	nmod:poss
12	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 top	nmod
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 rattle	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rattle	nsubj
15	rattle	rattle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 conduct	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 platter	det
17	platter	platter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rattle	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 strike	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 strike	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 strike	nsubj
21	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 conduct	conj
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 shoulders	nmod:poss
23	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 strike	obj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 hard	advmod
25	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 strike	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 make	mark
27	to	to	PART	_	28 make	mark
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 strike	advcl
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 make	obj
30	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 make	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 blue	cc
32	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 black	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 blow	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 blow	det
35	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 black	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 conduct	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 conduct	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	conduct	present	Those	the game scream	the top of games's voices	who nsubj	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent scream=Theme at top=Destination
2	rattle	present	games = game	the platter			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent platter=Theme
3	strike	present	games = game	games's shoulders		hard property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Patient
4	make	to-infinitive	games = game not said here	games = game		black property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product

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 32

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 32