Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 101
Together with his dangling pouches and tinkling ornaments, he placed it on the ground.
Who acts: avenger · What happens: tinkle, place · To what, where: scale, ground
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 (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 | Together | together | ADV | _ | 11 placed | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 pouches | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pouches | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dangling | dangling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pouches | compound |
| 5 | pouches | pouch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Together | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ornaments | cc |
| 7 | tinkling | tinkle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 ornaments | amod |
| 8 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pouches | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Together | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 placed | nsubj |
| 11 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 placed | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 placed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tinkle | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | place | past | avenger | scale | the ground | together property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on ground=Destination |
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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