Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 35

The children in deerskins and paints, just like their elders, were jolly little men and women.

Who acts: children · What happens: be · To what, where: little men

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 (children), 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	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 men	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 deerskins	case
4	deerskins	deerskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 children	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 paints	cc
6	paints	paint	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 deerskins	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 elders	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	11 elders	advmod
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 elders	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 elders	nmod:poss
11	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 deerskins	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 children	punct
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 men	cop
14	jolly	jolly	ADV	_	16 men	advmod
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 men	amod
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 women	cc
18	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 men	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 men	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the children in deerskins and paints and deerskins's elders	little men and women				jolly property	tree rules

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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