Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 2
The blue, blue sky dropped low over the edge of the green level land.
What happens: drop · To what, where: blue blue sky, edge
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sky | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sky | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 blue | punct |
| 4 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sky | amod |
| 5 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sky | acl |
| 7 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 dropped | advmod |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 edge | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 edge | det |
| 10 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dropped | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 land | det |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 land | amod |
| 14 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 land | compound |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 edge | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sky | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | participle | the blue blue sky not said here | the edge of the green level land | low property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over edge=Trajectory |
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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