Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 10
He was handsome in his paint and feathers, proud with his great buckskin quiver on his back and a long bow in his hand.
Who acts: Perchance · What happens: be, quiver · To what, where: paint, back
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Perchance), 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 | 3 handsome | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 handsome | cop |
| 3 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 paint | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 paint | nmod:poss |
| 6 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 handsome | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 feathers | cc |
| 8 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 paint | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 proud | punct |
| 10 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 paint | acl:relcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 quiver | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 quiver | nmod:poss |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 quiver | amod |
| 14 | buckskin | buckskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 quiver | compound |
| 15 | quiver | quiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 proud | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 back | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 back | nmod:poss |
| 18 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 quiver | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bow | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bow | det |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bow | amod |
| 22 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 quiver | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hand | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hand | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bow | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 handsome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Perchance | Perchance's paint and feathers | handsome property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | quiver | Perchance | Perchance's back | nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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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