Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 13
Every morning rose this terrible red bird out of a high chalk bluff and spreading out his gigantic wings soared slowly over the round camp ground.
Who acts: morning, this, spreading · What happens: rise, bird, spread out, soar · To what, where: high chalk bluff, gigantic wings, round camp ground
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 (morning, this, spreading), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 bird | nsubj |
| 5 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bird | amod |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bird | amod |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | ccomp |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 bluff | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bluff | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bluff | det |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bluff | amod |
| 12 | chalk | chalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bluff | compound |
| 13 | bluff | bluff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 soared | cc |
| 15 | spreading | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 soared | csubj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 spreading | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wings | nmod:poss |
| 18 | gigantic | gigantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wings | amod |
| 19 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 spreading | obj |
| 20 | soared | soar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 21 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 20 soared | advmod |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 ground | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ground | det |
| 24 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ground | amod |
| 25 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ground | compound |
| 26 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 soared | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | every morning | a high chalk bluff | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out bluff=Location | ||||
| 2 | bird | this | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | spread out | gerund | Perchance's gigantic wings | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | |||||
| 4 | soar | past | spreading | the round camp ground | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over ground=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/8/13/