Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 76

The summer sun hung bright in the middle of a cloudless sky.

Who acts: summer sun · What happens: hang · To what, where: middle

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 (summer sun), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
2	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sun	compound
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	nsubj
4	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hung	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 middle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 middle	det
8	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 sky	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sky	det
11	cloudless	cloudless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sky	amod
12	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 middle	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past	the summer sun			the middle of a cloudless sky		bright property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=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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