Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 61
He is straight and tall; handsome in face, with large black eyes.
Who acts: level · What happens: be · To what, where: face
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 (level), 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 | 5 tall | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tall | cop |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 5 tall | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tall | cc |
| 5 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 handsome | punct |
| 7 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tall | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 face | case |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 handsome | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eyes | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 eyes | case |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eyes | amod |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eyes | amod |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tall | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | level | straight, tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | level not said here | face | tree rules |
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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