Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 54
He sent forth fleet horsemen, to learn of him his birth, his name, and his deeds.
Who acts: tale · What happens: send, learn, name · To what, where: fleet horsemen, birth
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), 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 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 2 sent | advmod |
| 4 | fleet | fleet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 horsemen | amod |
| 5 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sent | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 learn | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 learn | mark |
| 8 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sent | advcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 learn | obl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 birth | nmod:poss |
| 12 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 learn | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 name | punct |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 name | nmod:poss |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 learn | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 deeds | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 deeds | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 19 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sent | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | tale | fleet horsemen | tale's deeds obl; forth property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horseman=Theme | |||
| 2 | learn | to-infinitive | tale not said here | tale's birth | of tale; tale's name obl | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Topic | |||
| 3 | name | tale | nom name «communication transitive»: 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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