Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 12
Beside the chieftain's teepee waited the hunters while the tall man entered with the child.
Who acts: tall man · What happens: wait, enter · To what, where: hunters, teepee
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 (tall man), 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 | Beside | beside | ADP | _ | 5 teepee | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chieftain | det |
| 3 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 teepee | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 chieftain | case |
| 5 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waited | obl |
| 6 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hunters | det |
| 8 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 waited | obj |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 entered | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 entered | nsubj |
| 13 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 waited | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 child | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 entered | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the hunters | the chieftain's teepee | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | the tall man | with the child | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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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