Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, sentence 6
There are night people on the plain who love the dark.
Who acts: night people, plain · What happens: be, love · To what, where: dark
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 (night people, plain), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 people | compound |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 plain | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 plain | det |
| 7 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 people | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 love | nsubj |
| 9 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 plain | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dark | det |
| 11 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 love | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | night people on the plain | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | love | present | the plain | the dark | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dark=Stimulus |
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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