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title: Thus the ball is thrown and contended for till one party succeeds in… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus the ball is thrown and contended for till one party succeeds in casting it beyond the bound of the opposite party. Who acts: one party. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 119

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Thus the ball is thrown and contended for till one party succeeds in casting it beyond the bound of the opposite party.

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**Who acts:** one party · **What happens:** throw, contend, succeed, cast · **To what, where:** ball, bound

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one party), 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:pg8122:19:119
# text = Thus the ball is thrown and contended for till one party succeeds in casting it beyond the bound of the opposite party.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	contended	contend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	_
9	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	succeeds	succeed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	casting	cast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | present · passive |  | the ball |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **contend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **succeed** | present | one party |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cast** | gerund | one party *not said here* | ball |  | the bound of the opposite party |  |  | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme beyond bound=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:** «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.

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