Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 123
Imitating the swaying strides of the avenger, he walked away with a face turned slightly skyward.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: imitate, sway, walk away, turn, stride · To what, where: swaying strides, face, avenger
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 | Imitating | imitate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 walked | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 strides | det |
| 3 | swaying | sway | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 strides | amod |
| 4 | strides | stride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Imitating | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 avenger | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 avenger | det |
| 7 | avenger | avenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strides | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Imitating | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 walked | nsubj |
| 10 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 walked | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 face | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 face | det |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walked | obl |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 face | acl |
| 16 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 17 skyward | advmod |
| 17 | skyward | skyward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 turned | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imitate | gerund | Iktomi not said here | the swaying strides of the avenger | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stride=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sway | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | walk away | past | Iktomi | with a face; away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | turn | participle | a face not said here | skyward property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stride | the avenger | nom stride «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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