Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. Legend of the Arbutus, sentence 22

Peboan crawled on his knees over the furs to the little fire in the middle of the teepee.

Who acts: Peboan · What happens: crawl · To what, where: knees

This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, X. Legend of the Arbutus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peboan), 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	Peboan	Peboan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 crawled	nsubj
2	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 knees	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 knees	nmod:poss
5	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crawled	obl
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 furs	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 furs	det
8	furs	fur	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crawled	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 fire	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fire	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fire	amod
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crawled	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 middle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 middle	det
15	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crawled	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 teepee	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 teepee	det
18	teepee	teepee	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 middle	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 crawled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl	past	Peboan			Peboan's knees		over the furs; to the little fire; in the middle of the teepee	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to fire=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. Legend of the Arbutus, sentence 22