--- title: Each player has a sort of bat, called "Tâ-kée-cha-psé-cha," about th… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: Each player has a sort of bat, called "Tâ-kée-cha-psé-cha," about thirty two inches long with a hoop at the lower end four or five inches in diameter, interlaced with thongs of deer-skin, forming a sort of pocket. Who acts: player, Tâ. 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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 (player, Tâ), 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:pg8122:19:113 # text = Each player has a sort of bat, called "Tâ-kée-cha-psé-cha," about thirty two inches long with a hoop at the lower end four or five inches in diameter, interlaced with thongs of deer-skin, forming a sort of pocket. 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 player player NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Tâ Tâ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 kée kée NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 cha cha NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 psé psé NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 cha cha NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 22 about about ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 24 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 inches inch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 hoop hoop NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 amod _ _ 33 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 34 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 flat _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 inches inch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 diameter diameter NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 interlaced interlace VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 acl _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 thongs thong NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 deer deer NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 forming form VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 advcl _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ _ 52 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | each player | a sort of bat | | | | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Patient | | 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | participle | | a sort of bat *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cha** *in a quote* | | Tâ | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **interlace** | participle | | five inches in diameter *not said here* | | | | with thongs of deer skin | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with thong=Co-Patient | | 5 | **form** | gerund | | a sort of pocket | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sort=Theme | | 6 | **sort** | | | bat | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **sort** | | | pocket | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/19/112/) - next →: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/19/114/) - ↑ back to [In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/19/)