Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 75
They went home painted victors and loud-voiced singers.
Who acts: people · What happens: go, paint · To what, where: painted victors
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), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 victors | amod |
| 5 | victors | victor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 singers | cc |
| 7 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 voiced | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 loud | punct |
| 9 | voiced | voiced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 singers | amod |
| 10 | singers | singer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 victors | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | people | painted victors and voiced singers | home property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location victor=Theme | |||
| 2 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «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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