Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 45
But unlike other arrows it pierced through the head of the creature and spinning in the air lit into the next buffalo head.
Who acts: creature · What happens: pierce, spin, lit · To what, where: arrow, air, next buffalo head
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 (creature), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 pierced | cc |
| 2 | unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 4 arrows | case |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 arrows | amod |
| 4 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pierced | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pierced | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 head | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 head | det |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pierced | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 creature | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 creature | det |
| 12 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 head | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spinning | cc |
| 14 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 creature | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 air | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 air | det |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spinning | obl |
| 18 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 air | acl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 head | det |
| 21 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 head | amod |
| 22 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 head | compound |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lit | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pierced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pierce | participle · passive | arrow | unlike other arrows; through the head of the creature | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: subject=Instrument through head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | spin | gerund | the creature not said here | the air | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | lit | participle | the air not said here | the next buffalo head | tree rules |
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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