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title: The Indians would bet on the various sports, hanging the prizes for… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: The Indians would bet on the various sports, hanging the prizes for each game on a pole. Who acts: Indians. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 107

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The Indians would bet on the various sports, hanging the prizes for each game on a pole.

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**Who acts:** Indians · **What happens:** bet, hang · **To what, where:** prizes, pole

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians), 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:pg78673:20:110
# text = The Indians would bet on the various sports, hanging the prizes for each game on a pole.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	bet	bet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	prizes	prize	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bet** | would | the Indians |  |  |  |  | on the various sports | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on sport=Theme |
| 2 | **hang** | gerund | the Indians *not said here* | the prizes |  | a pole |  | for each game | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prize=Theme on pole=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:** «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (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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