Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 96

At midnight the teepees were gone and there was left no sign of the village save heaps of dead ashes.

Who acts: teepees, sign · What happens: be, leave, save · To what, where: sign, heaps

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 (teepees, sign), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 midnight	case
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teepees	det
4	teepees	teepee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gone	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	cop
6	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 left	cc
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 left	expl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 left	aux:pass
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 gone	conj
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 sign	det
12	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 village	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 village	det
15	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 save	obl
16	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sign	acl:relcl
17	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 save	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 ashes	case
19	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ashes	amod
20	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 heaps	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the teepees			midnight	gone property	tree rules
2	leave	past · passive	the teepees not said here	no sign	there			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: sign=Theme
3	save	present	no sign not said here	heaps of dead ashes			of the village	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=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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