Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 42
Following the point of his arrow with their eyes, they beheld a herd of buffalo.
Who acts: hunters · What happens: follow, behold, point · To what, where: point, herd, arrow
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 | Following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 beheld | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 point | det |
| 3 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Following | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 arrow | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 point | nmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 arrow | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Following | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 beheld | nsubj |
| 12 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 herd | det |
| 14 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beheld | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 buffalo | case |
| 16 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 herd | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | hunters = hunter not said here | the point of eagle's arrow with hunters's eyes | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Theme | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | hunters = hunter | a herd of buffalo | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herd=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | point | eagle's arrow with hunters's eyes | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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