Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 17
They reached a marshy place, and the mire was very deep.
Who acts: Grasshopper, mire · What happens: reach, be · To what, where: marshy place
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, mire), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 4 | marshy | marshy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 place | amod |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 deep | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 deep | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mire | det |
| 9 | mire | mire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deep | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 deep | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 deep | advmod |
| 12 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 reached | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Grasshopper | a marshy place | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the mire | deep property | tree rules |
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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