Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 25

But the lull between midnight and dawn was short indeed.

Who acts: lull · What happens: be

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 (lull), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 short	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lull	det
3	lull	lull	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 short	nsubj
4	between	between	ADP	_	5 midnight	case
5	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lull	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dawn	cc
7	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lull	conj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 short	cop
9	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	9 short	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 short	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lull between midnight and dawn					indeed, short property	tree rules

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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