Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 47

With straight quivering limbs they lay on their sides.

Who acts: limbs · What happens: quiver, lay · To what, where: sides

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 (limbs), 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 limbs	case
2	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 limbs	amod
3	quivering	quiver	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 limbs	amod
4	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lay	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lay	nsubj
6	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 sides	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sides	nmod:poss
9	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lay	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quiver	gerund							vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	lay	present	limbs = limb			limbs's sides		with straight quivering limbs	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on side=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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