Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 33
The Indian boys have their pony races and running matches.
Who acts: Indian boys, boys · What happens: have, run, race · To what, where: pony races
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 (Indian boys, boys), 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 | 3 boys | det |
| 2 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boys | amod |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 races | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pony | pony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 races | compound |
| 7 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 matches | cc |
| 9 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 matches | amod |
| 10 | matches | match | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 races | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the Indian boys | boys's pony races and running matches | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Patient | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | race | boys = boy | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=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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