Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, sentence 20
They built a small open fire within the center of their queer dance house.
Who acts: singers · What happens: build · To what, where: small open fire
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 (singers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 built | nsubj |
| 2 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fire | det |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fire | amod |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fire | amod |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 built | obj |
| 7 | within | within | ADP | _ | 9 center | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 center | det |
| 9 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 built | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 house | nmod:poss |
| 12 | queer | queer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 house | amod |
| 13 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 house | compound |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 center | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | singers = singer | a small open fire | within the center of singers's queer dance house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product |
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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