Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 34

Everywhere stood young and old with a palm to an ear.

What happens: stand

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: 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	Everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 stood	advmod
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 old	cc
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 young	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 palm	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 palm	det
8	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 ear	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ear	det
11	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past						with a palm; to a ear; everywhere, young property	vn assuming_position-50 «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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