Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 16

The Grasshopper with his cousin, the Dragon Fly, went foremost.

Who acts: Grasshopper · What happens: go

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 (Grasshopper), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Grasshopper	det
2	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 went	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 cousin	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cousin	nmod:poss
5	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Grasshopper	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Fly	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Fly	det
8	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Fly	compound
9	Fly	Fly	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Grasshopper	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Grasshopper	punct
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	foremost	foremost	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the Grasshopper with four's cousin and the Dragon Fly					foremost property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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