Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 92
With these words Iktomi pointed toward the tree-top, where sat a bird on the highest branch.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: point, sit · To what, where: bird, highest branch
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 (Iktomi), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pointed | obl |
| 4 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pointed | nsubj |
| 5 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 10 top | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 top | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 top | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 tree | punct |
| 10 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pointed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sat | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 sat | advmod |
| 13 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pointed | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bird | det |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sat | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 branch | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 branch | det |
| 18 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 branch | amod |
| 19 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sat | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | past | Iktomi | with this words; toward the tree top | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | Iktomi not said here | a bird | the highest branch | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme on branch=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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