Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. Legend of the Arbutus, sentence 57
His deerskin clothes turned to leaves and covered Peboan on the ground.
Who acts: deerskin clothes · What happens: turn, cover · To what, where: leaves, Peboan, ground
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 (deerskin clothes), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | deerskin | deerskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clothes | compound |
| 3 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 leaves | case |
| 6 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 turned | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 covered | cc |
| 8 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 9 | Peboan | Peboan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 covered | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 ground | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ground | det |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 covered | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | participle | Peboan's deerskin clothes | leaves | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to leaf=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | cover | past | Peboan's deerskin clothes not said here | Peboan | the ground | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme peboan=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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