Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 23

The tall man now came out of the chieftain's teepee.

Who acts: tall man · What happens: come out · To what, where: 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 came	advmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	11 teepee	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 teepee	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chieftain	det
9	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 teepee	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 chieftain	case
11	teepee	teepee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	the tall man	the chieftain's teepee			now		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient teepee=Result

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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