Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 144
When the bewildered woman reached her dwelling, she mounted a pony and rode swiftly across the rolling land.
Who acts: bewildered woman, toss · What happens: bewilder, reach, dwell, mount, ride, roll · To what, where: toss, pony, rolling land
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 (bewildered woman, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 reached | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 mounted | advcl |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | obj |
| 7 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 reached | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 mounted | nsubj |
| 10 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pony | det |
| 12 | pony | pony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mounted | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rode | cc |
| 14 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 mounted | conj |
| 15 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 14 rode | advmod |
| 16 | across | across | ADP | _ | 19 land | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 land | det |
| 18 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 land | amod |
| 19 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rode | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bewilder | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | reach | past | the bewildered woman | toss | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dwell | gerund | the bewildered woman not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | mount | past | toss | a pony | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pony=Patient | ||||
| 5 | ride | past | toss not said here | the rolling land | swiftly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across land=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | roll | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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