Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 22
Some cunning old warriors stayed not with the group.
Who acts: cunning old warriors · What happens: not stay
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 (cunning old warriors), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 warriors | det |
| 2 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 warriors | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 warriors | amod |
| 4 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stayed | nsubj |
| 5 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stayed | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 group | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 group | det |
| 9 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stayed | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stay | past | some cunning old warriors | with the group | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with group=Location |
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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