Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 137
There before her astonished eyes clung a young brave close to the tree.
Who acts: astonished eyes · What happens: cling · To what, where: young brave close tree
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 (astonished eyes), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 clung | expl |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 clung | mark |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 clung | nsubj |
| 6 | clung | cling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tree | amod |
| 9 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tree | amod |
| 10 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tree | amod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clung | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 clung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cling | past | toss's astonished eyes | a young brave close tree | there | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=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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