Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 5

The bats are about thirty inches long, with a loop at the lower end; this is laced across with deer sinew, to make a pocket in which the ball is caught and thrown.

Who acts: bats, deer · What happens: be, lace, sinew, make, catch, throw · To what, where: this, pocket, ball

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 (bats, deer), 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	2 bats	det
2	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 long	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 long	cop
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 thirty	advmod
5	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 inches	nummod
6	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 long	obl:unmarked
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 loop	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 loop	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 loop	det
11	loop	loop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 long	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 end	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 end	det
14	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 end	amod
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 loop	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 laced	punct
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 laced	nsubj:pass
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 laced	aux:pass
19	laced	lace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 long	conj
20	across	across	ADV	_	19 laced	advmod
21	with	with	SCONJ	_	23 sinew	mark
22	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sinew	nsubj
23	sinew	sinew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 laced	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct
25	to	to	PART	_	26 make	mark
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sinew	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 pocket	det
28	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 which	case
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 caught	obl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ball	det
32	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 caught	nsubj:pass
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 caught	aux:pass
34	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 pocket	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 thrown	cc
36	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 caught	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the bats			with a loop at the lower end; thirty inches obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules
2	lace	present · passive		this		across property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	sinew	present	deer				tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive	deer not said here	a pocket			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pocket=Product
5	catch	present · passive		the ball	a pocket		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	throw	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 5

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Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 5