Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, sentence 36

All of a sudden they slide into the eye-sockets of the old skull.

Who acts: others · What happens: slide · To what, where: eye sockets

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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 slide	advmod
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 sudden	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sudden	det
4	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 slide	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 slide	nsubj
6	slide	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	11 sockets	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sockets	det
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sockets	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 eye	punct
11	sockets	socket	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 slide	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 skull	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 skull	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 skull	amod
15	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sockets	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 slide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide	present	others = other			the eye sockets of the old skull		of a sudden	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme of sudden=Source into socket=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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