Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 66
All around the camp ground from mouth to ear passed those words of the returned messengers.
What happens: pass, return, word · To what, where: words, ear, returned messengers
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: 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 | All | all | ADV | _ | 10 passed | advmod |
| 2 | around | around | ADP | _ | 5 ground | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ground | det |
| 4 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ground | compound |
| 5 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 All | obl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 mouth | case |
| 7 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ground | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 ear | case |
| 9 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | obl |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 words | det |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 passed | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 messengers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 messengers | det |
| 15 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 messengers | amod |
| 16 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 words | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | that words of the returned messengers | ear | all property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Theme to ear=Recipient | |||
| 2 | return | participle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | word | the returned messengers | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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