Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 3
Indian men, with bows and arrows, were wading waist deep amid the wild rice.
Who acts: Indian men · What happens: wade, waist · To what, where: deep amid
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 (Indian men), 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 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 men | amod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 waist | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bows | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 bows | case |
| 5 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 men | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 arrows | cc |
| 7 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 men | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 men | punct |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wading | aux |
| 10 | wading | wade | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 men | acl:relcl |
| 11 | waist | waist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 amid | amod |
| 13 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waist | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rice | det |
| 15 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rice | amod |
| 16 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waist | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 waist | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wade | past · progressive | Indian men and bows and arrows not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | waist | present | Indian men and bows and arrows | deep amid | tree rules |
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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