Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 117

The ball (Tâ-pa) is then thrown up half way between the bounds, and the game begins, the contestants contending with their bats for the ball as it falls.

Who acts: game, contestants, ball · What happens: throw up, begin, contend, fall · To what, where: ball, contestants

This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (game, contestants, ball), 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 ball	det
2	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thrown	nsubj:pass
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 pa	punct
4	Tâ	Tâ	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pa	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Tâ	punct
6	pa	pa	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ball	appos
7	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 pa	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thrown	aux:pass
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 thrown	advmod
10	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 thrown	compound:prt
12	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 way	advmod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thrown	obl
14	between	between	ADP	_	16 bounds	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bounds	det
16	bounds	bound	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 way	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 begins	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 begins	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 game	det
20	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 begins	nsubj
21	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thrown	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 contestants	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 contestants	det
24	contestants	contestant	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 begins	obl
25	contending	contend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 contestants	acl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 bats	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 bats	nmod:poss
28	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 contending	obl
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 ball	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ball	det
31	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 contending	obl
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 falls	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 falls	nsubj
34	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 contending	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 thrown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	throw up	present · passive		the ball	then	way between the bounds obl	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	begin	present	the game	the contestants			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	contend	gerund	the contestants not said here			with games's bats; for the ball	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with bat=Co-Agent
4	fall	present	ball				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (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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🌲 Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 117

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 117