Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 47

He wore a loin cloth of woven sweet grass.

Who acts: hair · What happens: wear, weave · To what, where: loin cloth

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Toad and the Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wore	nsubj
2	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cloth	det
4	loin	loin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cloth	compound
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wore	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 grass	case
7	woven	weave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 grass	amod
8	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grass	amod
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cloth	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	hair	a loin cloth of woven sweet grass					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent cloth=Source
2	weave	participle							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Project Gutenberg book 338 (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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