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title: “There are some so given to the game that they will gamble away even… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: “There are some so given to the game that they will gamble away even their greatcoat. Who acts: some, games. 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 31

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“There are some so given to the game that they will gamble away even their greatcoat.

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**Who acts:** some, games · **What happens:** be, give, gamble away · **To what, where:** game, greatcoat

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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 (some, games), 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:pg73136:20:31
# text = “There are some so given to the game that they will gamble away even their greatcoat.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	gamble	gamble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	greatcoat	greatcoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	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 | **be** *in a quote* | present | some |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | participle | some *not said here* |  | the game |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to game=Recipient |
| 3 | **gamble away** *in a quote* | future | games *= game* | games's greatcoat |  |  |  | away *property* | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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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