Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 7
Stakes are set many feet away from the center, on opposite sides, as the bounds for the game.
What happens: set · To what, where: Stakes, opposite sides
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: 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 | Stakes | stake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | aux:pass |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feet | amod |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 away | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 center | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 center | det |
| 9 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 away | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sides | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 sides | case |
| 12 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sides | amod |
| 13 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bounds | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 bounds | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bounds | det |
| 17 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 game | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 game | det |
| 20 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bounds | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | present · passive | Stakes | opposite sides | as the bounds for the game; away property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on side=Destination |
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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