Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 129

She paused to listen to the sad words.

Who acts: toss · What happens: pause, listen

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 (toss), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paused	nsubj
2	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 listen	mark
4	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 paused	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 words	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 words	det
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 words	amod
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 listen	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pause	past	toss						tree rules
2	listen	to-infinitive	toss not said here					to the sad words	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=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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