Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 66
Upward she glanced at the smoke hole of the wigwam and saw a bright star peeping down upon her.
Who acts: ear, bright star · What happens: glance, see, peep down · To what, where: bright star
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 (ear, bright star), 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 | Upward | upward | ADV | _ | 3 glanced | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 glanced | nsubj |
| 3 | glanced | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 hole | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hole | det |
| 6 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hole | compound |
| 7 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 glanced | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wigwam | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wigwam | det |
| 10 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hole | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 glanced | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 star | det |
| 14 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 star | amod |
| 15 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 16 | peeping | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 star | acl |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 peeping | advmod |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 peeping | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glance | past | ear | at the smoke hole of the wigwam; upward property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hole=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | ear not said here | a bright star | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer star=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | peep down | gerund | a bright star not said here | upon ear; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon she=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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