Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 94
In the next branch it was caught between the forked prongs.
What happens: catch, fork · To what, where: branch, next 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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 branch | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 branch | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 branch | amod |
| 4 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 caught | aux:pass |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 prongs | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prongs | det |
| 10 | forked | fork | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 prongs | amod |
| 11 | prongs | prong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 caught | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · passive | branch | the next branch | between the forked prongs | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | fork | participle | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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