Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 14

Then it was that the people, terror-stricken, ran screaming into their lodges.

Who acts: ground, people · What happens: be, run, scream · To what, where: people, lodges

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 (ground, people), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 people	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 people	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 people	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 people	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ran	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stricken	punct
8	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stricken	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 terror	punct
10	stricken	stricken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 people	punct
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 ran	advcl
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 lodges	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 lodges	nmod:poss
16	lodges	lodge	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 screaming	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past	ground	the people		then	tree rules
2	run	past	the people				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	scream speech: express	gerund	the people not said here		people's lodges		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into lodge=Recipient

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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