Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 32
In an instant the long bows were bent.
What happens: bend · To what, where: long bows, instant
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bent | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bows | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bows | amod |
| 6 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bent | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bent | aux:pass |
| 8 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past · passive | the long bows | a instant | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme in instant=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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