Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 119
Thus the ball is thrown and contended for till one party succeeds in casting it beyond the bound of the opposite party.
Who acts: one party · What happens: throw, contend, succeed, cast · To what, where: ball, bound
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 (one party), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 thrown | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ball | det |
| 3 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thrown | aux:pass |
| 5 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 contended | cc |
| 7 | contended | contend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 thrown | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 contended | obl |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 succeeds | mark |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 party | nummod |
| 11 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 succeeds | nsubj |
| 12 | succeeds | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thrown | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 14 casting | mark |
| 14 | casting | cast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 succeeds | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 casting | obj |
| 16 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 18 bound | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bound | det |
| 18 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 casting | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 party | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 party | det |
| 21 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 party | amod |
| 22 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bound | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | present · passive | the ball | thus property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | contend | participle | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | succeed | present | one party | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | cast | gerund | one party not said here | ball | the bound of the opposite party | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme beyond bound=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: «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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