Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 99
Leave them safe upon the grass till you are down again.”
Who acts: you · What happens: leave, be · To what, where: Friend, grass
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 (you), 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 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Leave | obj |
| 3 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Leave | xcomp |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 grass | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 grass | det |
| 6 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leave | obl |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 down | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 down | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 down | cop |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Leave | advmod |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 down | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leave | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | Friend | the grass | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme upon grass=Location | ||
| 2 | is | present | you | again | down property | 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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