Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 33
Your shoulders are covered with heavy strings of hiaqua.
What happens: cover · To what, where: shoulders
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle. 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 2 | shoulders | shoulder | 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 strings | case |
| 6 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 strings | amod |
| 7 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 covered | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hiaqua | case |
| 9 | hiaqua | hiaqua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strings | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | present · passive | Your shoulders | with heavy strings of hiaqua | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with string=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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