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title: Indian girls play the same game and with nearly as much vigor and sk… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Indian girls play the same game and with nearly as much vigor and skill as their brothers. Who acts: Indian girls. 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 15

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Indian girls play the same game and with nearly as much vigor and skill as their brothers.

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**Who acts:** Indian girls · **What happens:** play · **To what, where:** same game

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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 (Indian girls), 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:pg73136:20:15
# text = Indian girls play the same game and with nearly as much vigor and skill as their brothers.
1	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	vigor	vigor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | Indian girls | the same game and much vigor and skill |  |  |  | as games's brothers | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |

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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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