Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, sentence 15
It might have been a wildcat prowling low on soft, stealthy feet.
Who acts: dark, wildcat · What happens: be, prowl · To what, where: wildcat, soft stealthy feet
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 (dark, wildcat), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wildcat | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 wildcat | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wildcat | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 wildcat | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wildcat | det |
| 6 | wildcat | wildcat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | prowling | prowl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 wildcat | acl |
| 8 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 prowling | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 feet | case |
| 10 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feet | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 soft | punct |
| 12 | stealthy | stealthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feet | amod |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 prowling | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wildcat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | might · perfect | dark | a wildcat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prowl | gerund | a wildcat not said here | soft stealthy feet | low property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=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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