Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 1
THE huntsman Patkasa (turtle) stood bent over a newly slain deer.
What happens: bend · To what, where: huntsman, slain deer
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Turtle. 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.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it 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 huntsman | det |
| 2 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Patkasa | Patkasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 huntsman | appos |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 turtle | punct |
| 5 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Patkasa | appos |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 turtle | punct |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bent | aux:pass |
| 8 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 deer | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 deer | det |
| 11 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 13 deer | advmod |
| 12 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 deer | compound |
| 13 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bent | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past · passive | the huntsman | a slain deer | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme over deer=Location |
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: «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Project Gutenberg book 338 (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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