Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. Legend of the Arbutus, sentence 25
The deerskins that covered the teepee trembled like leaves, for the warm wind blew them.
Who acts: deerskins, warm wind · What happens: cover, tremble, blow · To what, where: teepee, deerskins
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 (deerskins, warm wind), 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 deerskins | det |
| 2 | deerskins | deerskin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 covered | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 covered | nsubj |
| 4 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 teepee | det |
| 6 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covered | obj |
| 7 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 teepee | acl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 leaves | case |
| 9 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 trembled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 blew | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 blew | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wind | det |
| 13 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wind | amod |
| 14 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blew | nsubj |
| 15 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 covered | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 blew | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past | the deerskins | the teepee | that nsubj | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme teepee=Destination | |||
| 2 | tremble | participle | the teepee not said here | like leaves | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | blow | past | the warm wind | deerskins = deerskin | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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