Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 37

Here seated in a large circle, the people were assembled, the proud chieftain rose with the little baby in his arms.

What happens: seat, assemble · To what, where: large circle, people

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: 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	11 assembled	advmod
2	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Here	advcl
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 circle	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 circle	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 circle	amod
6	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seated	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 people	det
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 assembled	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 assembled	aux:pass
11	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rose	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rose	det
14	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 rose	amod
15	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rose	compound
16	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 assembled	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 baby	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 baby	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 baby	amod
20	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rose	nmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 arms	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 arms	nmod:poss
23	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 rose	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 assembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seat	participle				a large circle			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in circle=Location
2	assemble	past · passive		the people		here		the proud chieftain rose with the little baby in house's arms obl	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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