Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 38
The teepees around the lakes were gone, save one lonely dwelling.
Who acts: teepees · What happens: be, save, dwell · To what, where: one
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 (teepees), 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 teepees | det |
| 2 | teepees | teepee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | around | around | ADP | _ | 5 lakes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lakes | det |
| 5 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 teepees | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | cop |
| 7 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 save | punct |
| 9 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | parataxis |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 save | obj |
| 11 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dwelling | amod |
| 12 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 one | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the teepees around the lakes | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | save | infinitive | one | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dwell | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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