Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 108
Warriors with long knives rushed forth and slew the camp-eater.
Who acts: Warriors · What happens: rush, slay · To what, where: camp eater
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 (Warriors), 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 | Warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rushed | nsubj |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 knives | case |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knives | amod |
| 4 | knives | knife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Warriors | nmod |
| 5 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 5 rushed | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 slew | cc |
| 8 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rushed | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eater | det |
| 10 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eater | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 camp | punct |
| 12 | eater | eater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slew | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | Warriors with long knives | forth property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | slay | past | Warriors with long knives not said here | the camp eater | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eater=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/13/108/