Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 34
Here underneath a temporary shade-house of green leaves they were to dance and feast.
Who acts: men · What happens: dance, 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 (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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 1 Here | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 4 | temporary | temporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 5 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 shade | punct |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 leaves | case |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 leaves | amod |
| 10 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 house | nmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dance | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dance | aux |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 dance | mark |
| 14 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 leaves | acl:relcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 feast | cc |
| 16 | feast | feast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 dance | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | men = man | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | feast | infinitive | men = man not said here | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=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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