Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 50

He slipped it into his long fringed quiver.

Who acts: buffalo · What happens: slip, fringe, quiver · To what, where: arrow, long fringed quiver

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 (buffalo), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slipped	nsubj
2	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slipped	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	8 quiver	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 quiver	nmod:poss
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 quiver	amod
7	fringed	fringe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 quiver	amod
8	quiver	quiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slipped	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 slipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	slip	past	buffalo	arrow	buffalo's long fringed quiver	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	fringe	participle				tree rules
3	quiver		buffalo			nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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