Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, sentence 4
A silvery thread among the stars, it soon drifted low beneath the horizon.
Who acts: silvery thread · What happens: drift · To what, where: horizon
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 (silvery thread), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 thread | det |
| 2 | silvery | silvery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thread | amod |
| 3 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drifted | nsubj |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 6 stars | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stars | det |
| 6 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thread | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thread | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 drifted | nsubj |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 drifted | advmod |
| 10 | drifted | drift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 drifted | xcomp |
| 12 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 14 horizon | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horizon | det |
| 14 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drifted | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 drifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drift | past | a silvery thread among the stars | the horizon | low, soon property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath horizon=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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