Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 11
Then the four men took, each, a corner of the blanket and carried the stranger, with long proud steps, toward the chieftain's teepee.
Who acts: four men · What happens: take, carry · To what, where: each, stranger
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 (four men), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 men | nummod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 each | punct |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 corner | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 corner | det |
| 10 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 blanket | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 blanket | det |
| 13 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 corner | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 carried | cc |
| 15 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stranger | det |
| 17 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carried | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 steps | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 steps | case |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 steps | amod |
| 21 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 steps | amod |
| 22 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 carried | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 teepee | punct |
| 24 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 28 teepee | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 chieftain | det |
| 26 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 teepee | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 chieftain | case |
| 28 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carried | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the four men | each | then | a corner of the blanket obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | carry | past | the four men not said here | the stranger | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=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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