Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 127

A young woman, carrying on her strong back a bundle of tightly bound willow sticks, passed near by the lonely teepee.

Who acts: young woman, lonely teepee · What happens: carry, pass · To what, where: bundle, strong back, young woman

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 (young woman, lonely teepee), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 passed	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 carrying	punct
5	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 woman	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 back	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 back	nmod:poss
8	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 back	amod
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carrying	obl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bundle	det
11	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carrying	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 sticks	case
13	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	14 bound	advmod
14	bound	bound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sticks	amod
15	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sticks	compound
16	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bundle	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 passed	punct
18	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	near	near	ADV	_	18 passed	advmod
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 teepee	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 teepee	det
22	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 teepee	amod
23	teepee	teepee	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 passed	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund	a young woman not said here	a bundle of bound willow sticks		toss's strong back			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme
2	pass	participle · passive	the lonely teepee	a young woman				near property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory

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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