Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 15
Soon carrying easily a bundle of long willows on her back, with a loop of rope over both her shoulders, she came striding homeward.
Who acts: willow · What happens: carry, come, stride · To what, where: bundle, back, homeward
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Toad and the Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (willow), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 carrying | advmod |
| 2 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 came | advcl |
| 3 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 2 carrying | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bundle | det |
| 5 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carrying | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 willows | case |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 willows | amod |
| 8 | willows | willow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bundle | nmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 back | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 back | nmod:poss |
| 11 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carrying | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 loop | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 loop | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 loop | det |
| 15 | loop | loop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carrying | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 rope | case |
| 17 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 loop | nmod |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 shoulders | case |
| 19 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 21 shoulders | cc:preconj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 21 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carrying | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 carrying | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | striding | stride | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 came | xcomp |
| 26 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 striding | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | gerund | willow not said here | a bundle of long willows | willow's back | with a loop of rope; over willow's shoulders; easily, soon property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme | ||
| 2 | come | past | willow | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stride | gerund | willow not said here | homeward | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme homeward=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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