Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 3
Its walls and roof were covered with rocks and straw.
What happens: cover · To what, where: walls
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Badger and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 walls | nmod:poss |
| 2 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 roof | cc |
| 4 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walls | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 covered | aux:pass |
| 6 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 rocks | case |
| 8 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 covered | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 straw | cc |
| 10 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rocks | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | ground's walls and roof | with rocks and straw | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with rock=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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