Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 55
“If he is the avenger with the magic arrow, sprung up from the earth out of a clot of buffalo blood, bid him come hither.
Who acts: tale, you · What happens: be, spring up, bid, come · To what, where: avenger, earth, tale
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, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 bid | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 avenger | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 avenger | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 avenger | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 avenger | det |
| 6 | avenger | avenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bid | advcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 arrow | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 arrow | det |
| 9 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 arrow | amod |
| 10 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 avenger | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 avenger | punct |
| 12 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 avenger | acl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 sprung | compound:prt |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 earth | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 earth | det |
| 16 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sprung | obl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 clot | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 clot | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 clot | det |
| 20 | clot | clot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 earth | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 blood | case |
| 22 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 blood | compound |
| 23 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 clot | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 avenger | punct |
| 25 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 bid | obj |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 bid | xcomp |
| 28 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 27 come | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 bid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | tale | the avenger | with the magic arrow | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spring up in a quote | participle | the avenger not said here | the earth out a clot of buffalo blood | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bid in a quote | imperative | you not said here | tale | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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