Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 126

She covered me over with dry sweet grass and piled dry cedars on top.

Who acts: mother · What happens: cover over, pile · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Fawn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 covered	nsubj
2	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 covered	obj
4	over	over	ADP	_	2 covered	compound:prt
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 grass	case
6	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grass	amod
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grass	amod
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 covered	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cedars	cc
10	piled	pile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 cedars	amod
11	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cedars	amod
12	cedars	cedar	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grass	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 top	case
14	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cedars	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover over	past	mother		me			with dry sweet grass and piled dry cedars on top	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Destination with grass=Theme
2	pile	participle							vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: 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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