Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 89

Thus the wild boy with the long, loose hair sits every day on a marshy island hid among the tall reeds.

Who acts: wild boy · What happens: sit, hide · To what, where: marshy island

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 (wild boy), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	11 sits	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sits	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	10 hair	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hair	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hair	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 long	punct
9	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hair	amod
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boy	nmod
11	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sits	obl:unmarked
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 island	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 island	det
16	marshy	marshy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 island	amod
17	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hid	obl
18	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sits	advcl
19	among	among	ADP	_	22 reeds	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 reeds	det
21	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 reeds	amod
22	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hid	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	the wild boy with the long loose hair				day	thus property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hide	past	the wild boy with the long loose hair not said here			a marshy island		among the tall reeds	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on island=Location

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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