Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, sentence 7
Amid the black level land they meet to frolic under the stars.
Who acts: people · What happens: meet, frolic · To what, where: stars
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 (people), 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 | Amid | amid | ADP | _ | 5 land | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 land | det |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 land | amod |
| 4 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 land | compound |
| 5 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meet | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 meet | nsubj |
| 7 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 frolic | mark |
| 9 | frolic | frolic | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 meet | xcomp |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 stars | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stars | det |
| 12 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 frolic | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present | people | amid the black level land | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | frolic | to-infinitive | people not said here | the stars | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under star=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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