Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 12
Ready to greet the stranger, the tall chieftain stood at the entrance way.
Who acts: Ready · What happens: greet, stand · To what, where: stranger, entrance way
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 (Ready), 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 | Ready | ready | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 greet | mark |
| 3 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ready | acl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stranger | det |
| 5 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 greet | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chieftain | det |
| 8 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chieftain | amod |
| 9 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 13 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 way | compound |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet | to-infinitive | Ready not said here | the stranger | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | Ready | the entrance way | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at way=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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