Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 34
They play much like white boys, but with more cruelty.
Who acts: boys · What happens: play
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 play | nsubj |
| 2 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 2 play | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 boys | case |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boys | amod |
| 6 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 play | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cruelty | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 cruelty | cc |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 cruelty | case |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 cruelty | amod |
| 11 | cruelty | cruelty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 play | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | boys = boy | like white boys; more cruelty parataxis | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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