Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 100
Wearing his own ugly shape, his huge body toppled to and fro, from side to side, on a pair of thin legs far too small for their burden.
Who acts: legs · What happens: wear, topple, fro, burden · To what, where: own ugly shape, side, huge body
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iya, the Camp-eater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legs), 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 | Wearing | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 pair | csubj |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 shape | nmod:poss |
| 3 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shape | amod |
| 4 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shape | amod |
| 5 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wearing | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 body | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 body | nmod:poss |
| 8 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 body | amod |
| 9 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shape | conj |
| 10 | toppled | topple | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 body | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 toppled | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fro | cc |
| 13 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 toppled | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 side | punct |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 side | case |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wearing | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 side | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pair | punct |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 pair | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pair | det |
| 22 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 legs | case |
| 24 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 legs | amod |
| 25 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 pair | nmod |
| 26 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 small | advmod |
| 27 | too | too | ADV | _ | 28 small | advmod |
| 28 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pair | amod |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 burden | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 burden | nmod:poss |
| 31 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 small | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 pair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | gerund | sun's own ugly shape and sun's huge body | side to side | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent shape=Theme from side=Source | ||||
| 2 | topple | participle | sun's huge body not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | fro | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | burden | legs = leg | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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