Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 26
From within the dwellings many eyes peeped through the small holes in the front lapels of the teepee.
Who acts: many eyes · What happens: peep
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 (many eyes), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 dwellings | case |
| 2 | within | within | ADP | _ | 4 dwellings | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dwellings | det |
| 4 | dwellings | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 peeped | obl |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eyes | amod |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 peeped | nsubj |
| 7 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 holes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 holes | det |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 holes | amod |
| 11 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 peeped | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 lapels | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lapels | det |
| 14 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lapels | amod |
| 15 | lapels | lapel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 holes | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 teepee | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 teepee | det |
| 18 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lapels | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 peeped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep | past | many eyes | through the small holes in the front lapels of the teepee; from the dwellings | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from dwelling=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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