Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 105
“How!” said the brave, and threw the bird and arrow to the ground.
What happens: say, throw · To what, where: brave, bird, ground · 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: 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 How | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 How | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brave | det |
| 7 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 threw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 threw | cc |
| 10 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 threw | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 arrow | cc |
| 14 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bird | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 threw | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the brave | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brave=Topic | |||||
| 2 | throw | past | the bird and arrow | the ground | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bird=Theme to 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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