Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 3
The tallest one among them hastened toward the high grass with long, cautious strides.
What happens: hasten · To what, where: tallest one, high grass
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: 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 one | det |
| 2 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 one | nmod |
| 6 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 one | acl |
| 7 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 10 grass | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 grass | det |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grass | amod |
| 10 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hastened | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 strides | case |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 strides | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 long | punct |
| 14 | cautious | cautious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 strides | amod |
| 15 | strides | stride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hastened | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle | the tallest one among huntsmen not said here | the high grass | with long cautious strides | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward grass=Trajectory |
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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