Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 41

They saw the stranger taking aim.

Who acts: hunters, stranger · What happens: see, take · To what, where: stranger, aim

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, stranger), 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	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stranger	det
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
5	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stranger	acl
6	aim	aim	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taking	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	hunters = hunter	the stranger					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus
2	take	gerund	the stranger not said here	aim					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=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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