Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 39
In a few days the ground was covered with the green leaves of growing plants.
What happens: cover, grow · To what, where: ground
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 covered | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ground | det |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 covered | aux:pass |
| 8 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 leaves | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 leaves | det |
| 11 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 leaves | amod |
| 12 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 covered | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 plants | case |
| 14 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 plants | amod |
| 15 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 leaves | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | the ground | day | with the green leaves of growing plants | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with leaf=Theme | |||
| 2 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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