Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 99
Seeing himself deserted, he threw off his baby form in a hot rage.
Who acts: Seeing, sun · What happens: see, desert, throw off, form · To what, where: sun, baby form, hot rage
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 (Seeing, sun), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 deserted | csubj |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 3 | deserted | desert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 threw | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 threw | nsubj |
| 6 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 deserted | conj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 threw | compound:prt |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 form | nmod:poss |
| 9 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 form | compound |
| 10 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 threw | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 rage | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rage | det |
| 13 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rage | amod |
| 14 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 threw | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 deserted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | sun | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | desert | past | Seeing | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | throw off | past | sun | sun's baby form | a hot rage | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent form=Theme in rage=Destination | |||
| 4 | form | sun | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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