Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 1
ONCE seven people went out to make war,--the Ashes, the Fire, the Bladder, the Grasshopper, the Dragon Fly, the Fish, and the Turtle.
Who acts: seven people · What happens: go out, make · To what, where: Ashes, war
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Warlike Seven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven people), 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 | ONCE | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 people | nummod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | advcl |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ashes | punct |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ashes | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Ashes | det |
| 12 | Ashes | Ash | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Fire | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Fire | det |
| 15 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Ashes | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Bladder | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Bladder | det |
| 18 | Bladder | Bladder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Fire | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Grasshopper | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Grasshopper | det |
| 21 | Grasshopper | Grasshopper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Fire | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Fly | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Fly | det |
| 24 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Fly | compound |
| 25 | Fly | Fly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Grasshopper | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Fish | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Fish | det |
| 28 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Grasshopper | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Turtle | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Turtle | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Turtle | det |
| 32 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | seven people | the Ashes the Fire and the Bladder and the Grasshopper and the Fish | the Turtle obl; once, out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | seven people not said here | war | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product |
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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