Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, sentence 9
There they are safely hid from all dangers, they think.
Who acts: people · What happens: be, think · To what, where: dangers
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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 hid | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hid | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hid | cop |
| 4 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 5 hid | advmod |
| 5 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 dangers | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 dangers | det |
| 8 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hid | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 think | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 think | nsubj |
| 11 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hid | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | people | all dangers; there | hide, safely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | people | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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