Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 39
On the evening of the same day sat a group of hunters around a bright burning fire.
What happens: sit, burn · To what, where: group, bright burning fire
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 evening | nmod |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 group | det |
| 10 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hunters | case |
| 12 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 group | nmod |
| 13 | around | around | ADP | _ | 17 fire | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fire | det |
| 15 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fire | amod |
| 16 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 fire | amod |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | a group of hunters | a bright burning fire | evening | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent group=Theme around fire=Location | |||
| 2 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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