Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 16

Now an arrow stuck above the ear of Double-Face.

What happens: stick · To what, where: arrow, ear

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit. 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 arrow	advmod
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 arrow	det
3	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 arrow	acl
5	above	above	ADP	_	7 ear	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ear	det
7	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 Face	case
9	Double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Face	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Double	punct
11	Face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ear	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 arrow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	participle		a arrow not said here		the ear of Double Face			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme above ear=Destination

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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