Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVI. the North Star, sentence 9
The chief covered his head with his blanket and chanted:
Who acts: chief · What happens: cover, chant · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVI. the North Star. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief), 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 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 covered | nsubj |
| 3 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 covered | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 blanket | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 blanket | nmod:poss |
| 8 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 covered | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 chanted | cc |
| 10 | chanted | chant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 blanket | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past | the chief | chief's head | with chief's blanket | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Destination with blanket=Theme | |||
| 2 | chant | participle | the chief not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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