Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 63
One by one they rose in the air and shot a straight line over the prairie.
Who acts: One · What happens: rise, shoot · To what, where: air, straight line, prairie
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 (One), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shot | cc |
| 10 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rose | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 line | det |
| 12 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 line | amod |
| 13 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shot | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 prairie | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prairie | det |
| 16 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shot | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | One by one | the air | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location | ||||
| 2 | shoot | past | One by one not said here | a straight line | the prairie | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent line=Theme over prairie=Destination |
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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