Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 75
Though asleep, his ear was ever alert.
Who acts: ear · What happens: be
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), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 2 asleep | mark |
| 2 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 alert | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 asleep | punct |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ear | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 alert | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 alert | cop |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 alert | advmod |
| 8 | alert | alert | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 alert | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | chieftain's ear | ever | alert property | tree rules |
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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