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title: The prairies give wide room for the games in summer, and the ice on… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The prairies give wide room for the games in summer, and the ice on the many lakes serves as winter ball grounds for them. Who acts: prairies, ice. 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
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Games, sentence 2

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The prairies give wide room for the games in summer, and the ice on the many lakes serves as winter ball grounds for them.

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**Who acts:** prairies, ice · **What happens:** give, serve · **To what, where:** wide room

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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 (prairies, ice), 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:pg73136:20:2
# text = The prairies give wide room for the games in summer, and the ice on the many lakes serves as winter ball grounds for them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prairies	prairie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	serves	serve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	19	nmod	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | the prairies | wide room |  |  |  | for the games in summer | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent room=Theme for game=Asset |
| 2 | **serve** |  | the ice on the many lakes |  |  |  |  | as ball grounds for games | tree rules |

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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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