Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 33

Men in loose deerskins, with long tinkling metal fringes, strode in small numbers toward the center of the round camp ground.

Who acts: Men · What happens: stride · To what, where: small numbers

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 (Men), 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	Men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 strode	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 deerskins	case
3	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 deerskins	amod
4	deerskins	deerskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Men	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fringes	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 fringes	case
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tinkling	amod
8	tinkling	tinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 metal	compound
9	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fringes	compound
10	fringes	fringe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 deerskins	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 strode	punct
12	strode	stride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 numbers	case
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 numbers	amod
15	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 strode	obl
16	toward	toward	ADP	_	18 center	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 center	det
18	center	center	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 strode	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 ground	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ground	det
21	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ground	amod
22	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ground	compound
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 center	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 strode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stride	past	Men in loose deerskins and metal fringes			small numbers		toward the center of the round camp ground	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in number=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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