Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 120
A hundred players on a side are sometimes engaged in this exciting game.
What happens: engage · To what, where: hundred players, exciting game
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 players | det |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 players | nummod |
| 3 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 side | det |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 players | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 engaged | aux:pass |
| 8 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 engaged | advmod |
| 9 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 game | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 game | det |
| 12 | exciting | exciting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 game | amod |
| 13 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 engaged | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | present · passive | a hundred players on a side | in this exciting game goal; sometimes property | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in game=Goal |
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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