Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 77

There across the green prairie was a man walking bareheaded toward the east.

Who acts: green prairie · What happens: be, barehead

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 (green prairie), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 bareheaded	expl
2	across	across	ADP	_	8 man	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prairie	det
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 prairie	amod
5	prairie	prairie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bareheaded	obl
9	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 bareheaded	aux:pass
10	bareheaded	barehead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	toward	toward	ADP	_	13 east	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 east	det
13	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bareheaded	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 bareheaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the green prairie					across a man	tree rules
2	barehead	gerund · passive				there		toward the east	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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