Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 53
When the hunter's tale of the stranger's arrow reached the ears of the chieftain, his face brightened with a smile.
Who acts: tale, arrow · What happens: reach, brighten, tell · To what, where: ears, face · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tale, arrow), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 11 reached | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hunter | det |
| 3 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tale | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 hunter | case |
| 5 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 arrow | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stranger | det |
| 8 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 stranger | case |
| 10 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tale | nmod |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ears | det |
| 13 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 reached | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 chieftain | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chieftain | det |
| 16 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ears | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 face | punct |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 face | nmod:poss |
| 19 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chieftain | appos |
| 20 | brightened | brighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 face | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 smile | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 smile | det |
| 23 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brightened | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the hunter's tale of the stranger's arrow | the ears of the chieftain | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | brighten | participle | tale's face not said here | with a smile | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with smile=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | tell | the stranger's arrow | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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