Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 71

Beneath the tree in front of his teepee he sat upon the ground with chin between his drawn-up knees.

Who acts: eagle · What happens: sit, draw up · To what, where: tree

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 (eagle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg338:724): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beneath	beneath	ADP	_	3 tree	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 front	case
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tree	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 teepee	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 teepee	nmod:poss
8	teepee	teepee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 front	nmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sat	nsubj
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 chin	case
15	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
16	between	between	ADP	_	21 knees	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 knees	nmod:poss
18	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 knees	amod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 up	punct
20	up	up	ADP	_	18 drawn	compound:prt
21	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 chin	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	eagle			the tree in front of eagle's teepee		upon the ground; with chin between eagle's drawn knees	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath tree=Location
2	draw up	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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