Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, sentence 32
In a ring around the fire hopped the mice, each bouncing hard on his two hind feet.
Who acts: each · What happens: hop, bounce · To what, where: mice, ring, two hind 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 (each), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 ring | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ring | det |
| 3 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hopped | obl |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 6 fire | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fire | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ring | nmod |
| 7 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mice | det |
| 9 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hopped | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bouncing | punct |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 bouncing | nsubj |
| 12 | bouncing | bounce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 hopped | advcl |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 bouncing | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 feet | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 feet | nmod:poss |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 feet | nummod |
| 17 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feet | amod |
| 18 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bouncing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop | past | the mice | a ring around the fire | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mouse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bounce | gerund | each | plain's two hind feet | hard property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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