Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 63
He carries on his back a long fringed quiver in which he keeps his magic arrow.
Who acts: level · What happens: carry, fringe, keep · To what, where: long fringed quiver, back, magic arrow
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 | 2 carries | nsubj |
| 2 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 back | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 back | nmod:poss |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carries | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 quiver | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 quiver | amod |
| 8 | fringed | fringe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 quiver | amod |
| 9 | quiver | quiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carries | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 keeps | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 keeps | nsubj |
| 13 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 quiver | acl:relcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 15 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 arrow | amod |
| 16 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keeps | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carries | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | level | a long fringed quiver | level's back | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quiver=Theme | |||
| 2 | fringe | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | keep | present | level | level's magic arrow | a long fringed quiver | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme in which=Location |
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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