Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, sentence 21
The light streamed out of the buffalo skull through all the curious sockets and holes.
Who acts: light · What happens: stream · To what, where: buffalo skull
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 (light), 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 light | det |
| 2 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 streamed | nsubj |
| 3 | streamed | stream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 skull | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 skull | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 skull | det |
| 7 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 skull | compound |
| 8 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 streamed | obl |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 sockets | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 sockets | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sockets | det |
| 12 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sockets | amod |
| 13 | sockets | socket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 streamed | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 holes | cc |
| 15 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sockets | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 streamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stream | past | the light | the buffalo skull | through all curious sockets and holes | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out skull=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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