Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, sentence 35
Very low to the ground they seem to creep--creep toward the buffalo skull.
Who acts: others · What happens: seem, creep · To what, where: ground, creep
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 (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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 low | advmod |
| 2 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 ground | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ground | det |
| 5 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 low | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seem | nsubj |
| 7 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ground | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 creep | mark |
| 9 | creep | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seem | xcomp |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 creep | punct |
| 11 | creep | creep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 creep | obl |
| 12 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 15 skull | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 skull | det |
| 14 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 skull | compound |
| 15 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 creep | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 low | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | others = other | the ground not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | creep | to-infinitive | others = other not said here | creep toward the buffalo skull | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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