Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 95
The young fawns stopped with stiff legs and stared at the speaking arrow with large brown wondering eyes.
Who acts: young fawns · What happens: stop, stare, speak · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (young fawns), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fawns | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fawns | amod |
| 3 | fawns | fawn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stopped | nsubj |
| 4 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 legs | case |
| 6 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 legs | amod |
| 7 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stopped | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stared | cc |
| 9 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stopped | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 arrow | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 arrow | det |
| 12 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 arrow | amod |
| 13 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stared | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eyes | amod |
| 16 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eyes | amod |
| 17 | wondering | wondering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eyes | compound |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 arrow | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the young fawns | with stiff legs | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with leg=Location | ||||
| 2 | stare | past | the young fawns not said here | at the speaking arrow with large brown wondering eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at arrow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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