Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, sentence 27
All the while across the dark from out the low river bottom came that pair of fiery eyes.
Who acts: while · What happens: come · To what, where: pair
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 (while), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 while | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 6 dark | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dark | det |
| 6 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 while | nmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 bottom | case |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 from | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bottom | det |
| 10 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bottom | amod |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bottom | compound |
| 12 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dark | nmod |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 pair | det |
| 15 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 17 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eyes | amod |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pair | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | all while across the dark from the low river bottom | that pair of fiery eyes | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pair=Theme |
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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