Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 77
With an eagle eye he scanned the camp ground for some sign.
Who acts: chieftain · What happens: scan · To what, where: camp ground
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 (chieftain), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 eye | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 eye | det |
| 3 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eye | compound |
| 4 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scanned | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 scanned | nsubj |
| 6 | scanned | scan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 8 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ground | compound |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scanned | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 sign | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 sign | det |
| 12 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scanned | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 scanned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scan | past | chieftain | the camp ground | with a eagle eye; for some sign | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent ground=Theme for sign=Attribute |
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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