Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 75

All of a sudden he raised an open palm to his brow and peered afar into the west.

Who acts: All · What happens: raise, peer · To what, where: open palm, brow, afar, west

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 (All), 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	DET	PronType=Tot	6 raised	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 sudden	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sudden	det
4	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 All	nmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 raised	nsubj
6	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 palm	det
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 palm	amod
9	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 raised	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 brow	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 brow	nmod:poss
12	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 raised	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 peered	cc
14	peered	peer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 raised	conj
15	afar	afar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 peered	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 west	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 west	det
18	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 peered	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 raised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	past	All	a open palm		eagle's brow			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent palm=Theme to brow=Destination
2	peer	past	All not said here	afar		the west			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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