Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, sentence 10

Thus it was that one very black night, afar off from the edge of the level land, out of the wooded river bottom glided forth two balls of fire.

Who acts: thread · What happens: be, wood, glide · To what, where: night afar, edge, two balls

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Dance in a Buffalo Skull. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thread), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	10 afar	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 afar	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 afar	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 afar	mark
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 night	nummod
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 black	advmod
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 night	amod
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 afar	compound
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 night	punct
10	afar	afar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 afar	compound:prt
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 edge	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 edge	det
14	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 afar	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 land	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 land	det
17	level	level	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 land	amod
18	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 edge	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 glided	punct
20	out	out	ADP	_	26 glided	mark
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 bottom	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bottom	det
23	wooded	wood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 bottom	amod
24	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bottom	compound
25	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 glided	obl
26	glided	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 afar	conj
27	forth	forth	ADV	_	28 two	advmod
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 balls	nummod
29	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 glided	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 fire	case
31	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 balls	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 afar	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	thread	night afar	the edge of the level land	thus property	tree rules
2	wood	participle					tree rules
3	glide	past	thread not said here	two balls of fire		of the wooded river bottom	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent ball=Theme of bottom=Trajectory

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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