Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 2
As they were talking excitedly, waving their fists in violent gestures, a wind came and blew the Ashes away.
Who acts: people, wind · What happens: talk, wave, come, blow away · To what, where: fists, Ashes
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 (people, wind), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 talking | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 talking | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 talking | aux |
| 4 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 came | advcl |
| 5 | excitedly | excitedly | ADV | _ | 4 talking | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 waving | punct |
| 7 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 talking | conj |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fists | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fists | fist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 waving | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 gestures | case |
| 11 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gestures | amod |
| 12 | gestures | gesture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 waving | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 talking | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wind | det |
| 15 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 blew | cc |
| 18 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 came | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Ashes | det |
| 20 | Ashes | Ash | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 blew | obj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 blew | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past · progressive | people | excitedly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wave | gerund | people not said here | people's fists | in violent gestures | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent fist=Patient in gesture=Theme | |||
| 3 | come | past | a wind | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | blow away | past | a wind not said here | the Ashes | away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ash=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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