Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 125
This game is not confined to the warriors, but is also a favorite amusement of the Dakota maidens who generally play for prizes offered by the chief or warriors.
Who acts: Dakota maidens · What happens: not confine, be, play, offer · To what, where: game, warriors, favorite amusement, prizes
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 (Dakota maidens), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 game | det |
| 2 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 confined | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 confined | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 confined | advmod |
| 5 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 warriors | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 warriors | det |
| 8 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 confined | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 amusement | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 amusement | cc |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 amusement | cop |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 amusement | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 amusement | det |
| 14 | favorite | favorite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 amusement | amod |
| 15 | amusement | amusement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 confined | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 maidens | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 maidens | det |
| 18 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 maidens | compound |
| 19 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 amusement | nmod |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 play | nsubj |
| 21 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 22 play | advmod |
| 22 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 maidens | acl:relcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 prizes | case |
| 24 | prizes | prize | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 play | obl |
| 25 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 prizes | acl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 chief | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 chief | det |
| 28 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 offered | obl |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 warriors | cc |
| 30 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 chief | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 confined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not confine | present · passive | this game | the warriors | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to warrior=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a favorite amusement | of the Dakota maidens | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | play | present | the Dakota maidens | for prizes; generally property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for prize=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | offer | participle | prizes not said here | by the chief or warriors | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
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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