Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 22
Before the finding of the magic arrow he had sat there.
Who acts: Inyan · What happens: sit, find · To what, where: magic arrow
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi's Blanket. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Inyan), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 3 finding | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 finding | det |
| 3 | finding | finding | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 arrow | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 arrow | det |
| 6 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 arrow | amod |
| 7 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finding | nmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sat | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sat | aux |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 arrow | acl:relcl |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 sat | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 finding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · perfect | Inyan | the magic arrow not said here | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location arrow=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | the magic arrow | nom finding «act transitive»: of=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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