Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 44
It darted into the skull of the foremost buffalo.
Who acts: arrow · What happens: dart · To what, where: skull
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 (arrow), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 darted | nsubj |
| 2 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 skull | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skull | det |
| 5 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 darted | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 buffalo | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 buffalo | det |
| 8 | foremost | foremost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 buffalo | amod |
| 9 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skull | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 darted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dart | past | arrow | the skull of the foremost buffalo | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into skull=Destination |
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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