Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 101

Though with every move he came dangerously nigh to falling, he followed in the trail of the fleeing people.

Who acts: sun · What happens: come, fall, follow · To what, where: trail

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 (sun), 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	Though	though	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 move	case
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 move	det
4	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	dangerously	dangerously	ADV	_	8 nigh	advmod
8	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
9	to	to	SCONJ	_	10 falling	mark
10	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 came	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 followed	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 followed	nsubj
13	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 trail	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trail	det
16	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 followed	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 people	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 people	det
19	fleeing	fleeing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 people	compound
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 trail	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	sun		with every move; nigh, though property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	gerund	sun not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	follow	past	sun	the trail of the fleeing people		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in trail=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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