Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 64
Others shot up into the blue sky and were soon lost to sight.
Who acts: Others · What happens: shoot up, lose · To what, where: blue sky, sight
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 (Others), 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 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 shot | nsubj |
| 2 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 shot | compound:prt |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 sky | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sky | det |
| 6 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sky | amod |
| 7 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shot | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lost | cc |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lost | aux:pass |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 lost | advmod |
| 11 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 shot | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 sight | mark |
| 13 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lost | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot up | past | Others | the blue sky | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lose | past · passive | Others not said here | sight | soon property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» |
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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