Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 37

The birds were flying high toward the south.

Who acts: birds · What happens: fly · To what, where: south

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 (birds), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flying	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flying	aux
4	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 flying	advmod
6	toward	toward	ADP	_	8 south	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 south	det
8	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flying	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past · progressive	the birds			the south		high property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward south=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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