Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 100
“You are right,” replied the young man, quickly slipping off his long fringed quiver.
Who acts: You, young man, avenger · What happens: be, reply, slip off, fringe, quiver · To what, where: long fringed quiver · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, young man, avenger), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 slipping | punct |
| 12 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 13 slipping | advmod |
| 13 | slipping | slip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 replied | advcl |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 slipping | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 quiver | nmod:poss |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 quiver | amod |
| 17 | fringed | fringe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 quiver | amod |
| 18 | quiver | quiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slipping | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the young man | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | slip off | gerund | the young man not said here | avenger's long fringed quiver | quickly property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent quiver=Patient | |||
| 4 | fringe | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | quiver | avenger | nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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