Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 11
Afar to an eastern camp of cone-shaped teepees he was going.
Who acts: Perchance · What happens: shape, go · To what, where: shaped teepees
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 | Afar | Afar | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 camp | case |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 camp | det |
| 4 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 camp | amod |
| 5 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Afar | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 teepees | case |
| 7 | cone | cone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shaped | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 cone | punct |
| 9 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 teepees | amod |
| 10 | teepees | teepee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 camp | nmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 going | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 going | aux |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 teepees | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Afar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | Perchance | shaped teepees not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location teepee=Theme |
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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