Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, sentence 33
Some carried their tails over their arms, while others trailed them proudly along.
Who acts: Some, others · What happens: carry, trail · To what, where: tails, arms
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 (Some, others), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 tails | nmod:poss |
| 4 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carried | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 arms | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 arms | nmod:poss |
| 7 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carried | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 trailed | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 trailed | mark |
| 10 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 trailed | nsubj |
| 11 | trailed | trail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 carried | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 trailed | obj |
| 13 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 11 trailed | advmod |
| 14 | along | along | ADV | _ | 11 trailed | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | Some | feet's tails | feet's arms | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | |||
| 2 | trail | past | others | tails = tail | along, proudly property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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