Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 80
Bending low over her babe she gave ear to the ground.
Who acts: sound · What happens: bend, give · To what, where: babe, ear, 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 (sound), 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 | Bending | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 gave | csubj |
| 2 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Bending | advmod |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 babe | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 babe | nmod:poss |
| 5 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bending | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 ground | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | gerund | sound's babe | low property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over babe=Location | ||||
| 2 | give | past | sound | ear | the ground | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ear=Theme to ground=Recipient |
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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