Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 23
They crouched low upon the open ground.
Who acts: warriors · What happens: crouch · To what, where: open 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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 crouched | nsubj |
| 2 | crouched | crouch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 crouched | advmod |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ground | amod |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crouched | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 crouched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crouch | past | warriors = warrior | the open ground | low property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ground=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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