Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 16
No one dared to venture out till the red eagle had disappeared beyond the west, where meet the blue and green.
Who acts: one, red eagle · What happens: dare, venture out, disappear, meet · To what, where: blue
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 (one, red eagle), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dared | nsubj |
| 3 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 venture | mark |
| 5 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dared | xcomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 venture | compound:prt |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 disappeared | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eagle | det |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eagle | amod |
| 10 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 disappeared | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 disappeared | aux |
| 12 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 venture | advcl |
| 13 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 15 west | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 west | det |
| 15 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 disappeared | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 meet | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 meet | advmod |
| 18 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 west | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 blue | det |
| 20 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 meet | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 green | cc |
| 22 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 blue | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | past | no one | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | venture out | to-infinitive | no one not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | disappear | past · perfect | the red eagle | beyond the west | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | meet | present | the blue | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blue=Co-Agent |
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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