Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 15
Covering their heads with their blankets, they sat trembling with fear.
Who acts: people · What happens: cover, sit, tremble · To what, where: heads
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 (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 | Covering | cover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sat | advcl |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 heads | nmod:poss |
| 3 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Covering | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 blankets | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 blankets | nmod:poss |
| 6 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Covering | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Covering | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sat | nsubj |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 sat | xcomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 fear | case |
| 12 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trembling | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | gerund | people not said here | people's heads | with people's blankets | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Destination with blanket=Theme | |||
| 2 | sit | past | people | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tremble | gerund | people not said here | with fear | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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