Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 127
From a neighbor's fire she brought hither a red, red ember.
Who acts: mother, neighbor · What happens: bring, fire · To what, where: red red ember, fire
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 (mother, neighbor), 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 | _ | 5 fire | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 neighbor | det |
| 3 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fire | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 neighbor | case |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 brought | nsubj |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 7 brought | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ember | det |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ember | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 red | punct |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ember | amod |
| 13 | ember | ember | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | mother | a red red ember | a neighbor's fire | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ember=Theme from fire=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | fire | a neighbor | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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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