Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 10
Spreading a handsomely decorated buffalo robe before the man, two of the warriors lifted him by each shoulder and placed him gently on it.
What happens: spread, decorate, lift, place · To what, where: decorated buffalo robe, two, MAN, shoulder
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: 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 | Spreading | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 two | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 robe | det |
| 3 | handsomely | handsomely | ADV | _ | 4 decorated | advmod |
| 4 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 robe | amod |
| 5 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 robe | compound |
| 6 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spreading | obj |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spreading | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 two | punct |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 lifted | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 warriors | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 warriors | det |
| 14 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lifted | obl |
| 15 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lifted | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 shoulder | case |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 shoulder | det |
| 19 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lifted | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 placed | cc |
| 21 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lifted | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 placed | obj |
| 23 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 21 placed | advmod |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 placed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | gerund | a decorated buffalo robe | before the man | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent robe=Theme before man=Destination | ||||
| 2 | decorate | participle | handsomely property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lift | past | two | of the warriors; by each shoulder | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme of warrior=Destination by shoulder=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | place | past | MAN | shoulder | gently property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on it=Destination |
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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