Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 137
They are placed in a dish and thrown up like dice; indeed the game is virtually a game of dice.
Who acts: game · What happens: place, throw up, be · To what, where: stone, dish, game
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (game), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 placed | aux:pass |
| 3 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 dish | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dish | det |
| 6 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thrown | cc |
| 8 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 placed | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 thrown | compound:prt |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 dice | case |
| 11 | dice | dice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thrown | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 game | punct |
| 13 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 19 game | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 game | det |
| 15 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 game | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 game | cop |
| 17 | virtually | virtually | ADV | _ | 19 game | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 game | det |
| 19 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 dice | case |
| 21 | dice | dice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 game | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | present · passive | stone | a dish | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in dish=Destination | ||||
| 2 | throw up | participle | like dice | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the game | a game | of dice; indeed, virtually property | tree rules |
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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