Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 4
He waded through the growth of green with just a head above it all.
Who acts: grass, green · What happens: wade, grow · To what, where: growth
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 (grass, green), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg338:1050): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 waded | nsubj |
| 2 | waded | wade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 growth | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 growth | det |
| 5 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waded | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 green | case |
| 7 | green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 growth | nmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 head | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 head | det |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waded | obl |
| 12 | above | above | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 it | det |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wade | past | grass | the growth of green | with a head above head | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through growth=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | grow | green | nom growth «process intransitive»: of=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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