Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 93
The young avenger, always ready to help those in distress, sent an arrow upward and the bird fell.
Who acts: arrow, young avenger, bird · What happens: help, send, fall · To what, where: those, distress, arrow
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 (arrow, young avenger, bird), 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 | 13 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ready | punct |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 ready | advmod |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 avenger | amod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 help | mark |
| 8 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ready | xcomp |
| 9 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 help | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 distress | case |
| 11 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 those | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 avenger | punct |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 arrow | det |
| 15 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | obj |
| 16 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 13 sent | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fell | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bird | det |
| 19 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sent | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | to-infinitive | a arrow not said here | those | distress | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | send | past | the young avenger | a arrow | upward property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme | |||
| 3 | fall | past | the bird | vn occur-48.3 «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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