Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 20
The Dragon Fly went on, weeping for his cousin.
Who acts: Dragon Fly · What happens: go on, weep
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 (Dragon Fly), 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 | 3 Fly | det |
| 2 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Fly | compound |
| 3 | Fly | Fly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 weeping | punct |
| 7 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 cousin | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 10 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 weeping | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | the Dragon Fly | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | weep | gerund | the Dragon Fly not said here | for Fly's cousin | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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