Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 30
They were happy to attend the feast and dance for its naming.
Who acts: people, feast · What happens: be, attend, name · To what, where: feast
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 (people, feast), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happy | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happy | cop |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 attend | mark |
| 5 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 happy | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 feast | det |
| 7 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attend | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dance | cc |
| 9 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feast | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 naming | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 naming | nmod:poss |
| 12 | naming | naming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feast | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | people | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | attend | to-infinitive | people not said here | the feast and dance | for feast's naming | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme feast=Goal | |||
| 3 | name | feast | nom naming «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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