Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 40

They were talking of a strange young man whom they spied while out upon a hunt for deer beyond the bluffs.

Who acts: hunters · What happens: talk, spy · To what, where: strange young man

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 (hunters), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 talking	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 talking	aux
3	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 man	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
6	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talking	obl
9	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 spied	obj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 spied	nsubj
11	spied	spy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 out	mark
13	out	out	ADV	_	11 spied	advcl
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 hunt	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hunt	det
16	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spied	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 deer	case
18	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 spied	obl
19	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	21 bluffs	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bluffs	det
21	bluffs	bluff	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 spied	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 talking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past · progressive	hunters = hunter					of a strange young man	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spy	past	hunters = hunter	a strange young man				upon a hunt; for deer; beyond the bluffs	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus

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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