Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, sentence 28
Now closer and more swift, now fiercer and glaring, the eyes moved toward the buffalo skull.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: move · 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 (eyes), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 closer | advmod |
| 2 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 fiercer | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 swift | cc |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 swift | amod |
| 5 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 closer | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fiercer | punct |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 fiercer | advmod |
| 8 | fiercer | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 glaring | cc |
| 10 | glaring | glaring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fiercer | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 moved | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 eyes | det |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 moved | nsubj |
| 14 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fiercer | conj |
| 15 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 18 skull | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 skull | det |
| 17 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 skull | compound |
| 18 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moved | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fiercer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | the eyes | the buffalo skull | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme toward skull=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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