Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 36
Beside their eager parents they skipped along toward the green dance house.
Who acts: men · What happens: skip
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 | Beside | beside | ADP | _ | 4 parents | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 parents | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 parents | amod |
| 4 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 skipped | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 skipped | nsubj |
| 6 | skipped | skip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | along | along | ADV | _ | 6 skipped | advmod |
| 8 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 10 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 house | amod |
| 11 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | compound |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 skipped | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 skipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skip | past | men = man | beside men's eager parents; toward the green dance house; along property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside parent=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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