Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 32
To and fro hurried the women, handsome in their gala-day dress.
Who acts: women · What happens: hurry
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 (women), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg338:1077): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADV | _ | 4 hurried | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 fro | cc |
| 3 | fro | fro | ADV | _ | 1 To | conj |
| 4 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 women | det |
| 6 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hurried | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 handsome | punct |
| 8 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 women | amod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 dress | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dress | nmod:poss |
| 11 | gala | gala | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 day | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 gala | punct |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dress | compound |
| 14 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 handsome | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past | the women | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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