Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 26
Very early the oval-shaped door-flaps were thrust aside and many brown faces peered out of the wigwams toward the top of the highest bluff.
Who acts: oval shaped door flaps, many brown faces · What happens: be, peer · To what, where: thrust
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 (oval shaped door flaps, many brown faces), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 early | advmod |
| 2 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 thrust | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flaps | det |
| 4 | oval | oval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 flaps | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 oval | punct |
| 6 | shaped | shaped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 flaps | amod |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flaps | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 door | punct |
| 9 | flaps | flap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 thrust | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thrust | cop |
| 11 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 peered | obl |
| 12 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 17 peered | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 peered | cc |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 faces | amod |
| 15 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 faces | amod |
| 16 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 peered | nsubj |
| 17 | peered | peer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 wigwams | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 wigwams | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wigwams | det |
| 21 | wigwams | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 peered | obl |
| 22 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 24 top | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 top | det |
| 24 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 peered | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 bluff | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bluff | det |
| 27 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 bluff | amod |
| 28 | bluff | bluff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 top | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 peered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the oval shaped door flaps | thrust | early property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | peer | past | many brown faces | toward the top of the highest bluff; out the wigwams; aside property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent out wigwam=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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