Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 63

Alone sat the beautiful young mother watching the babe in her lap, asleep with a gaping little mouth.

Who acts: beautiful young mother · What happens: sit, watch, gape · To what, where: beautiful young mother, babe, lap

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 (beautiful young mother), 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	Alone	alone	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mother	det
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obj
7	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 mother	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 babe	det
9	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 watching	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 lap	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 lap	nmod:poss
12	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 watching	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 asleep	punct
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lap	amod
15	with	with	ADP	_	19 mouth	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mouth	det
17	gaping	gape	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 mouth	amod
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mouth	amod
19	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 asleep	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past		the beautiful young mother		alone property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mother=Theme
2	watch	gerund	the beautiful young mother not said here	the babe	Proud's lap		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babe=Theme
3	gape	gerund					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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