Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 40
They were filled with bugs, flies, and flower specimens.
What happens: fill, flower · To what, where: pockets, specimens
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Traits. 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.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 filled | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 filled | aux:pass |
| 3 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 bugs | case |
| 5 | bugs | bug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 filled | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 flies | punct |
| 7 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bugs | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flower | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 flower | cc |
| 10 | flower | flower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 filled | parataxis |
| 11 | specimens | specimen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 flower | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | pockets = pocket | with bugs and flies | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with bug=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | flower | present | specimens | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location specimen=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: «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (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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