Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 122
Wearing the handsome buckskins and carrying proudly the magic arrow in his right hand, he started off eastward.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: wear, carry, start off · To what, where: handsome buckskins, magic arrow, right hand
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 (Iktomi), 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 | Wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 started | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 buckskins | det |
| 3 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 buckskins | amod |
| 4 | buckskins | buckskin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Wearing | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 carrying | cc |
| 6 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Wearing | conj |
| 7 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 6 carrying | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 arrow | det |
| 9 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 arrow | amod |
| 10 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carrying | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hand | amod |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arrow | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wearing | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 started | nsubj |
| 17 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 started | compound:prt |
| 19 | eastward | eastward | ADV | _ | 17 started | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | gerund | Iktomi not said here | the handsome buckskins | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent buckskin=Source | ||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | Iktomi not said here | the magic arrow | Iktomi's right hand | proudly property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent arrow=Value in hand=Location | ||
| 3 | start off | past | Iktomi | eastward property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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