Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 29
Neither of the warriors carried weapons with them, and their unimposing stature misled the curious people.
Who acts: Neither, unimposing stature · What happens: carry, mislead · To what, where: weapons, curious people
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 (Neither, unimposing stature), 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 | Neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 warriors | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 warriors | det |
| 4 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Neither | nmod |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carried | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carried | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 misled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 misled | cc |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 stature | nmod:poss |
| 12 | unimposing | unimposing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stature | amod |
| 13 | stature | stature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 misled | nsubj |
| 14 | misled | mislead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carried | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 16 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 people | amod |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 misled | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | Neither | weapons | with people | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme | |||
| 2 | mislead | past | people's unimposing stature | the curious people | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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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