Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 11
With these words he went upward among the tree-tops; and the thorn apple pricked him.
Who acts: Bladder, thorn apple · What happens: go, prick · To what, where: Bladder
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 (Bladder, thorn apple), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 11 tops | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tops | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tops | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 tree | punct |
| 11 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 pricked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pricked | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 apple | det |
| 15 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 apple | compound |
| 16 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pricked | nsubj |
| 17 | pricked | prick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pricked | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Bladder | with this words; among the tree tops; upward property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with word=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | prick | past | the thorn apple | Bladder | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient |
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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