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title: This game is not confined to the warriors, but is also a favorite am… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: This game is not confined to the warriors, but is also a favorite amusement of the Dakota maidens who generally play for prizes offered by the chief or warriors. Who acts: Dakota maidens. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its 
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 125

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This game is not confined to the warriors, but is also a favorite amusement of the Dakota maidens who generally play for prizes offered by the chief or warriors.

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**Who acts:** Dakota maidens · **What happens:** not confine, be, play, offer · **To what, where:** game, warriors, favorite amusement, prizes

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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 (Dakota maidens), 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:pg8122:19:125
# text = This game is not confined to the warriors, but is also a favorite amusement of the Dakota maidens who generally play for prizes offered by the chief or warriors.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	confined	confine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	also	also	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	favorite	favorite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	amusement	amusement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	prizes	prize	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
25	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **confine** | present · passive |  | this game |  | the warriors |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to warrior=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a favorite amusement |  |  |  | of the Dakota maidens | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** | present | the Dakota maidens |  |  |  |  | for prizes; generally *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for prize=Eventuality |
| 4 | **offer** | participle |  | prizes *not said here* |  |  |  | by the chief or warriors | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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:** «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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