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title: The ball is thrown and contended for until one side succeeds in thro… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The ball is thrown and contended for until one side succeeds in throwing it beyond the bounds of the opposite party. Who acts: one side. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Games, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 13

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The ball is thrown and contended for until one side succeeds in throwing it beyond the bounds of the opposite party.

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**Who acts:** one side · **What happens:** throw, contend, succeed · **To what, where:** ball, bounds

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Games. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one side), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73136:20:13
# text = The ball is thrown and contended for until one side succeeds in throwing it beyond the bounds of the opposite party.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	contended	contend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	_
8	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	succeeds	succeed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bounds	bound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | present · passive |  | the ball |  |  |  |  | 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 side |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **throw** | gerund | one side *not said here* | ball |  | the bounds of the opposite party |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme beyond bound=Destination |

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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.

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**Text:** «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (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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