Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 108
From the high sky he had seen the fawns playing on the green.
Who acts: Hereupon, fawns · What happens: see, play · To what, where: fawns, high sky, green
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Fawn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hereupon, fawns), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 sky | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sky | det |
| 3 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sky | amod |
| 4 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seen | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fawns | det |
| 9 | fawns | fawn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 seen | obj |
| 10 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 fawns | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 green | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 green | det |
| 13 | green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 playing | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | Hereupon | the fawns | the high sky | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fawn=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | play | gerund | the fawns not said here | the green | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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