Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 23

That night the star men in their burial procession in the sky reached the low northern horizon, before the center fires within the teepees had flickered out.

Who acts: star men, center, shins · What happens: reach, fire, flicker out, proceed · To what, where: low northern horizon, teepees, sky

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 (star men, center, shins), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reached	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 men	det
4	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 men	compound
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 reached	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 procession	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 procession	nmod:poss
8	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 procession	compound
9	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 men	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 sky	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sky	det
12	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 procession	nmod
13	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 horizon	det
15	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 horizon	amod
16	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 horizon	amod
17	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reached	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fires	punct
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 fires	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 center	det
21	center	center	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fires	nsubj
22	fires	fire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 reached	conj
23	within	within	ADP	_	27 flickered	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 teepees	det
25	teepees	teepee	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 flickered	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 flickered	aux
27	flickered	flicker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 fires	advcl
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 flickered	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	reach	past	the star men in shins's burial procession in the sky	the low northern horizon		night	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent horizon=Theme
2	fire	present	the center				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	flicker out	past · perfect · passive		the teepees			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
4	proceed		shins = shin		the sky		nom procession «event intransitive»: poss=agent in=place

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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