Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 138

Too shy for words, yet too kind-hearted to leave the stranger tree-bound, she cut loose the whole bark.

Who acts: toss · What happens: leave, cut, lose · To what, where: stranger tree bound, whole bark

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	Too	too	ADV	_	2 shy	advmod
2	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 words	case
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shy	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hearted	punct
6	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	10 hearted	cc
7	too	too	ADV	_	10 hearted	advmod
8	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hearted	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 kind	punct
10	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shy	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 leave	mark
12	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hearted	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bound	det
14	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bound	compound
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bound	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 tree	punct
17	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leave	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cut	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 cut	nsubj
20	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shy	parataxis
21	loose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 cut	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bark	det
23	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bark	amod
24	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 loose	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	leave	to-infinitive		the stranger tree bound	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bound=Theme
2	cut	past	toss		tree rules
3	lose	infinitive	toss not said here	the whole bark	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Eventuality

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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