--- title: At the Game of the Plum-stones [77] he played and he won from the sk… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: At the Game of the Plum-stones [77] he played and he won from the skillfulest players; A feast to Wa'tánka [78] he made, and he danced at the feast of Heyóka. Who acts: esteem, feast. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (esteem, feast), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:11:4 # text = At the Game of the Plum-stones [77] he played and he won from the skillfulest players; A feast to Wa'tánka [78] he made, and he danced at the feast of Heyóka. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Game Game PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 Plum Plum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 9 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 77 77 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 skillfulest skillful ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 amod _ _ 20 players player NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 22 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Wa'tánka Wa'tánka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 78 78 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 Heyóka Heyóka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | past | esteem | | | the Game of the Plum stones | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **win** | past | esteem | | | the skillfulest players | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from player=Source | | 3 | **make** | past | a feast to Wa'tánka | | | | | esteem *nsubj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **dance** | past | esteem | | | the feast of Heyóka | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at feast=Location | 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. **Text:** «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/11/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/11/5/) - ↑ back to [The Feast of the Virgins., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/11/)