Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 17
The manitou bird covered the man with a great buffalo skin, but his head was not covered, for he had much black hair.
Who acts: manitou bird, man · What happens: cover, not cover, have · To what, where: man, head, much black hair
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manitou bird, man), 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 | 3 bird | det |
| 2 | manitou | manitou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bird | compound |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covered | nsubj |
| 4 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covered | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 skin | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 skin | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 skin | amod |
| 10 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 skin | compound |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 covered | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 covered | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 covered | aux:pass |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 covered | advmod |
| 18 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 covered | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 had | case |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 covered | conj |
| 23 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hair | amod |
| 24 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hair | amod |
| 25 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past | the manitou bird | the man | with a great buffalo skin | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent man=Destination with skin=Theme | |||
| 2 | not cover | past · passive | man's head | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 3 | have | past | man | much black hair | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
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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