Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 43
He yearned to fly above the trees high upward to the sun.
Who acts: shame · What happens: yearn, fly · To what, where: trees
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 (shame), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 yearned | nsubj |
| 2 | yearned | yearn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 fly | mark |
| 4 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 yearned | xcomp |
| 5 | above | above | ADP | _ | 7 trees | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trees | det |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fly | obl |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 trees | amod |
| 9 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 4 fly | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 sun. | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sun. | det |
| 12 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fly | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yearn | past | shame | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fly not said to happen | to-infinitive | shame not said here | the trees | to the sun.; upward property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above tree=Location |
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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