Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 33
Strong straight arrows with red feathered tips sped upward to the blue sky.
Who acts: Strong straight arrows · What happens: speed · To what, where: blue sky
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 (Strong straight arrows), 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 | Strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 arrows | amod |
| 2 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 arrows | amod |
| 3 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sped | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 tips | case |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tips | amod |
| 6 | feathered | feathered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tips | amod |
| 7 | tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 arrows | nmod |
| 8 | sped | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 8 sped | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 sky | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sky | det |
| 12 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sky | amod |
| 13 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sped | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speed | past | Strong straight arrows with red feathered tips | the blue sky | upward property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sky=Destination |
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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