Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, sentence 24
Your feathers are very fine, but they cover a stout body.
Who acts: feathers · What happens: be, cover · To what, where: stout body
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feathers), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fine | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fine | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 fine | advmod |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cover | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 cover | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cover | nsubj |
| 9 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fine | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 body | det |
| 11 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 body | amod |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cover | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your feathers | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cover | present | feathers = feather | a stout body | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme body=Destination |
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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