Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 28
At length when the morning sun also peeped over the eastern horizon at the armed Dakotas, the red eagle walked out upon the edge of the cliff.
Who acts: morning sun, red eagle · What happens: peep, walk out · To what, where: armed Dakotas
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 (morning sun, red eagle), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 peeped | obl |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 peeped | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sun | compound |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 peeped | nsubj |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 peeped | advmod |
| 8 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 horizon | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horizon | det |
| 11 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 horizon | amod |
| 12 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 peeped | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Dakotas | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Dakotas | det |
| 15 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Dakotas | amod |
| 16 | Dakotas | Dakotas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 walked | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 walked | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 eagle | det |
| 19 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eagle | amod |
| 20 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 walked | nsubj |
| 21 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 peeped | parataxis |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 walked | advmod |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 edge | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 edge | det |
| 25 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 walked | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 cliff | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cliff | det |
| 28 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 edge | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 peeped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep | past | the morning sun | over the eastern horizon; at length | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at length=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk out | past | the red eagle | the armed Dakotas | upon the edge of the cliff; out property | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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