Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 83
While he was gone a herd of deer came trotting by.
Who acts: herd · What happens: go, come, trot · To what, where: magician
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 (herd), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 gone | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux:pass |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 came | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 herd | det |
| 6 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 deer | case |
| 8 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 herd | nmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | trotting | trot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | xcomp |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 trotting | fixed |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · passive | magician | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | a herd of deer | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | trot | gerund | a herd of deer not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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