Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 48

The young man stood calmly by, counting on his fingers the buffalo as they dropped dead to the ground.

Who acts: young man, men · What happens: stand, count, drop · To what, where: buffalo, fingers, ground

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 (young man, men), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	4 stood	advmod
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 counting	mark
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 counting	punct
8	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stood	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 fingers	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fingers	nmod:poss
11	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 counting	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 buffalo	det
13	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 counting	obj
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 dropped	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dropped	nsubj
16	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	advcl
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dropped	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 ground	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ground	det
20	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dropped	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the young man			calmly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	count	gerund	the young man not said here	the buffalo	One's fingers		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme
3	drop	past	men = man		the ground	dead property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to ground=Trajectory

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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