Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota, sentence 20
The wigwams are covered with woven mats made of reeds or grass and birch bark.
What happens: cover, weave, make · To what, where: wigwams, woven mats
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Sioux and Chippewas of Minnesota. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wigwams | det |
| 2 | wigwams | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 covered | aux:pass |
| 4 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 mats | case |
| 6 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 mats | amod |
| 7 | mats | mat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 covered | obl |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 mats | acl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 reeds | case |
| 10 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 grass | cc |
| 12 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reeds | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bark | cc |
| 14 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bark | compound |
| 15 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grass | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | present · passive | the wigwams | with woven mats | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with mat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | weave | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | make | participle | woven mats not said here | of reeds or grass and birch bark | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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