Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 27
With shaking knees and hard-set teeth, the women peered out upon the Dakota men prowling about with bows and arrows.
Who acts: women, Dakota men · What happens: set, peer out, prowl
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 (women, Dakota men), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 knees | case |
| 2 | shaking | shaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knees | compound |
| 3 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 peered | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 teeth | cc |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 set | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 teeth | amod |
| 8 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 knees | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 knees | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 women | det |
| 11 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 peered | nsubj |
| 12 | peered | peer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 peered | advmod |
| 14 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 18 prowling | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 men | det |
| 16 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 men | compound |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 prowling | nsubj |
| 18 | prowling | prowl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 peered | advcl |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 prowling | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 bows | case |
| 21 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 prowling | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 arrows | cc |
| 23 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 bows | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 peered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | peer out | past | the women | with shaking knees and set teeth; out property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | prowl | gerund | the Dakota men | with bows and arrows; about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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