Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 35
Off to the west beyond the reach of arrow, beyond the reach of eye, the red eagle flew away.
Who acts: red eagle · What happens: fly away · To what, where: reach
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 (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 | Off | off | ADV | _ | 4 west | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 west | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 west | det |
| 4 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 7 reach | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 reach | det |
| 7 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 west | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 arrow | case |
| 9 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reach | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reach | punct |
| 11 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 13 reach | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 reach | det |
| 13 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 west | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 eye | case |
| 15 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reach | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 flew | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 eagle | det |
| 18 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 eagle | amod |
| 19 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flew | nsubj |
| 20 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 reach | acl:relcl |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 flew | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 west | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | past | the red eagle | the reach of eye not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location reach=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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