Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 14
Then rising, he took the infant in his strong arms; gently he laid the black-eyed babe in his daughter's lap.
Who acts: child · What happens: rise, take, lay · To what, where: infant, eyed babe, lap
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 (child), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 rising | advmod |
| 2 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 took | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 rising | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 infant | det |
| 7 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 arms | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 arms | nmod:poss |
| 10 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 arms | amod |
| 11 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 infant | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 laid | punct |
| 13 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 15 laid | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 laid | nsubj |
| 15 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 babe | det |
| 17 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 eyed | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 black | punct |
| 19 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 babe | amod |
| 20 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laid | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 lap | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 23 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lap | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 daughter | case |
| 25 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laid | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | gerund | child not said here | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | past | child | the infant | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infant=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | child | the eyed babe | child's daughter's lap | gently property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent babe=Theme in lap=Destination |
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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