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title: His deerskin clothes turned to leaves and covered Peboan on the grou… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: His deerskin clothes turned to leaves and covered Peboan on the ground. Who acts: deerskin clothes. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, X. Legend of the Arbutus, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. Legend of the Arbutus, sentence 57

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His deerskin clothes turned to leaves and covered Peboan on the ground.

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**Who acts:** deerskin clothes · **What happens:** turn, cover · **To what, where:** leaves, Peboan, ground

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73136:79:57
# text = His deerskin clothes turned to leaves and covered Peboan on the ground.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	deerskin	deerskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	Peboan	Peboan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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