Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 148
Indian circular house or tent made of poles covered with skins or cloth.
What happens: make, cover · To what, where: tent, poles, Indian circular house
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Key to Marks of Pronunciation. 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 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 house | amod |
| 2 | circular | circular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 house | amod |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 tent | cc |
| 5 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 house | conj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tent | acl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 poles | case |
| 8 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obl |
| 9 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 poles | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 skins | case |
| 11 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 covered | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 cloth | cc |
| 13 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 skins | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 house | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | tent not said here | of poles | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | poles not said here | with skins or cloth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent 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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