Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 5

In the largest teepee sat a young mother wrapping red porcupine quills about the long fringes of a buckskin cushion.

Who acts: young mother · What happens: sit, wrap · To what, where: young mother, largest teepee, red porcupine quills

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 (young mother), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 teepee	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teepee	det
3	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 teepee	amod
4	teepee	teepee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mother	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mother	amod
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obj
9	wrapping	wrap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 mother	acl
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 quills	amod
11	porcupine	porcupine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 quills	compound
12	quills	quill	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wrapping	obj
13	about	about	ADP	_	16 fringes	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fringes	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fringes	amod
16	fringes	fringe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wrapping	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 cushion	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 cushion	det
19	buckskin	buckskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cushion	compound
20	cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fringes	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past		a young mother		the largest teepee			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme in teepee=Location
2	wrap	gerund	a young mother not said here	red porcupine quills				about the long fringes of a buckskin cushion	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent quill=Theme about fringe=Destination

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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