Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 49
When the last one fell, he ran thither and picking up his magic arrow wiped it carefully on the soft grass.
Who acts: last one, buffalo, picking · What happens: fall, run, pick up, wipe · To what, where: magic arrow, arrow, soft grass
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 (last one, buffalo, picking), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 fell | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 one | amod |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ran | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ran | nsubj |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 8 ran | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wiped | cc |
| 11 | picking | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 wiped | csubj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 picking | compound:prt |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 14 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 arrow | amod |
| 15 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 picking | obj |
| 16 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ran | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wiped | obj |
| 18 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 16 wiped | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 grass | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 grass | det |
| 21 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 grass | amod |
| 22 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wiped | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the last one | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | past | buffalo | thither property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pick up | gerund | buffalo's magic arrow | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Topic | |||||
| 4 | wipe | past | picking | arrow | the soft grass | carefully property | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme on grass=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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