Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. Legend of the Arbutus, sentence 7
The floor of his teepee was covered with the skins of the bear and the elk.
What happens: cover · To what, where: floor
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: 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 floor | det |
| 2 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 teepee | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 teepee | nmod:poss |
| 5 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 floor | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 covered | aux:pass |
| 7 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 skins | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 skins | det |
| 10 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 covered | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bear | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bear | det |
| 13 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 skins | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 elk | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 elk | det |
| 16 | elk | elk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 skins | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | the floor of teepee's teepee | with the skins of the bear and the elk | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with skin=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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