Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Key to Marks of Pronunciation, sentence 167
It is made of short poles or brush bent over, fastened together, and covered hastily with skins, blankets, or other covering.
What happens: make, bend over, fasten, cover · To what, where: brushwood, short poles
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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 poles | case |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 poles | amod |
| 6 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 brush | cc |
| 8 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 poles | conj |
| 9 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 poles | acl |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 bent | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fastened | punct |
| 12 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bent | conj |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 fastened | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 covered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 covered | cc |
| 16 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 made | conj |
| 17 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 16 covered | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 skins | case |
| 19 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 covered | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 blankets | punct |
| 21 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 skins | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 covering | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 covering | cc |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 covering | amod |
| 25 | covering | covering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 skins | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | brushwood | of short poles or brush | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | bend over | participle | short poles or brush not said here | over property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fasten | participle | together property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | cover | participle | with skins and blankets or other covering; hastily property | 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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