Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 95
Thus creeping from teepee to teepee a secret alarm signal was given.
What happens: creep, give · To what, where: teepee, secret alarm signal
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: 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 creeping | advmod |
| 2 | creeping | creep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 given | advcl |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 teepee | case |
| 4 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 creeping | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 teepee | case |
| 6 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 creeping | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 signal | det |
| 8 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 signal | amod |
| 9 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 signal | compound |
| 10 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 given | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 given | aux:pass |
| 12 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | gerund | teepee | to teepee; thus property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to teepee=Destination | ||||
| 2 | give | past · passive | a secret alarm signal | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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