Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 15

Entering the teepee, the chieftain motioned the young man to the right side of the doorway, while he sat down opposite him with a center fire burning between them.

Who acts: chieftain, center fire · What happens: enter, motion, sit down, burn · To what, where: teepee, young man

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 (chieftain, center fire), 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	Entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 motioned	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teepee	det
3	teepee	teepee	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Entering	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Entering	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chieftain	det
6	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 motioned	nsubj
7	motioned	motion	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 motioned	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 side	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 side	det
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 side	amod
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 motioned	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 doorway	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 doorway	det
17	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 side	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sat	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 sat	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sat	nsubj
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 motioned	conj
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 sat	compound:prt
23	opposite	opposite	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sat	obl
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 fire	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 fire	det
27	center	center	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fire	compound
28	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	obl
29	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 fire	acl
30	between	between	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 burning	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 motioned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enter	gerund	the chieftain not said here	the teepee		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme teepee=Destination
2	motion	past	the chieftain	the young man	to the right side of the doorway	tree rules
3	sit down	past	chieftain		opposite MAN; with a center fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent opposite he=Location
4	burn	gerund	a center fire not said here		between steps = step	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between they=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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