Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 44

He wears the title of the eldest son.

Who acts: child · What happens: wear, title · To what, where: title, eldest son

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 (child), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wears	nsubj
2	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 title	det
4	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wears	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 son	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 son	det
7	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 son	amod
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 title	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	present	child	the title of the eldest son					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent title=Source
2	title			the eldest son					nom title «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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