Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 31
Slowly he winged his way over the round camp ground; over the men with their strong bows and arrows!
Who acts: eagle · What happens: wing · To what, where: way, round camp 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 (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 | Slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 winged | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 winged | nsubj |
| 3 | winged | wing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 way | nmod:poss |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 winged | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ground | det |
| 8 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ground | amod |
| 9 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ground | compound |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 winged | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 men | punct |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 men | det |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 winged | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 bows | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bows | nmod:poss |
| 17 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bows | amod |
| 18 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 men | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 arrows | cc |
| 20 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bows | conj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 winged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wing | past | eagle | eagle's way | the round camp ground | over the men with men's strong bows and arrows; slowly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent way=Theme over ground=Trajectory |
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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