Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 1

A MAN in buckskins sat upon the top of a little hillock.

Who acts: MAN · What happens: sit · To what, where: top

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Shooting of the Red Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MAN), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 MAN	det
2	MAN	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 buckskins	case
4	buckskins	buckskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 MAN	nmod
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 top	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 top	det
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 hillock	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hillock	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hillock	amod
12	hillock	hillock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 top	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	a MAN in buckskins			the top of a little hillock			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon top=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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