Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 42
“This woodland child is adopted by the chieftain's eldest daughter.
Who acts: eldest daughter · What happens: adopt · To what, where: woodland child
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 (eldest daughter), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 adopted | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 child | det |
| 3 | woodland | woodland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 child | compound |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 adopted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 adopted | aux:pass |
| 6 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 daughter | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chieftain | det |
| 9 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 chieftain | case |
| 11 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 daughter | amod |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 adopted | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 adopted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adopt in a quote | present · passive | the chieftain's eldest daughter | this woodland child | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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