Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 85
The young avenger walked with swaying strides nearer and nearer toward the lonely wigwam and tree.
Who acts: young avenger · What happens: walk, sway
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 (young avenger), 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 avenger | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 avenger | amod |
| 3 | avenger | avenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 6 swaying | mark |
| 6 | swaying | sway | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 walked | advcl |
| 7 | strides | stride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 nearer | nsubj |
| 8 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 swaying | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 nearer | cc |
| 10 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 nearer | conj |
| 11 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 14 wigwam | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wigwam | det |
| 13 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wigwam | amod |
| 14 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nearer | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tree | cc |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wigwam | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the young avenger | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sway | gerund | the young avenger not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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