Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 142

Looking backward, a few paces from the young woman, he waved his hand, upward and downward, before her face.

Who acts: spirit · What happens: look, wave · To what, where: few paces, hand

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 (spirit), 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 waved	advcl
2	backward	backward	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 paces	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 paces	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 paces	amod
6	paces	pace	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Looking	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 woman	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paces	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 waved	nsubj
13	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hand	nmod:poss
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waved	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 upward	punct
17	upward	upward	ADV	_	13 waved	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 downward	cc
19	downward	downward	ADV	_	17 upward	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 face	punct
21	before	before	ADP	_	23 face	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 face	nmod:poss
23	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waved	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 waved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund	spirit not said here	a few paces from the young woman				backward property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	wave	past	spirit	spirit's hand			before toss's face	upward property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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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