Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 84

He made it of bent willows and covered it with dry grass and twigs.

Who acts: distance · What happens: make, cover · To what, where: hut

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: who acts (distance), 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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 willows	case
5	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 willows	amod
6	willows	willow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 covered	cc
8	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 covered	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 grass	case
11	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grass	amod
12	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 covered	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 twigs	cc
14	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grass	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	distance	hut				of bent willows	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
2	cover	past	distance not said here	hut				with dry grass and twigs	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with grass=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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