Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 145
To the camp ground in the east, to the chieftain troubled by the red eagle, she carried her story.
Who acts: toss · What happens: trouble, carry · To what, where: chieftain, story, camp ground
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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 ground | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ground | det |
| 3 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ground | compound |
| 4 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carried | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 east | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 east | det |
| 7 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ground | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 chieftain | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 chieftain | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chieftain | det |
| 11 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ground | conj |
| 12 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 chieftain | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 eagle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 eagle | det |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 eagle | amod |
| 16 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 troubled | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ground | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 carried | nsubj |
| 19 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 story | nmod:poss |
| 21 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carried | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trouble | participle | the chieftain not said here | by the red eagle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | toss | toss's story | the camp ground in the east and the chieftain | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent story=Theme to ground=Destination |
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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