Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, sentence 34
Ah, very near are those round yellow eyes!
Who acts: those · What happens: be · To what, where: round yellow eyes
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 (those), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 9 eyes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 near | advmod |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 1 Ah | conj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 eyes | cop |
| 6 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 eyes | nsubj |
| 7 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 8 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 eyes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | those | round yellow eyes | tree rules |
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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