Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 3
His face was turned toward the round camp ground at the foot of the hill.
What happens: turn · To what, where: face, foot
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: 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | aux:pass |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 7 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ground | amod |
| 8 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ground | compound |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 foot | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 foot | det |
| 12 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 hill | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hill | det |
| 15 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 foot | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past · passive | sun's face | the foot of the hill | toward the round camp ground | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: subject=Theme toward ground=Source at foot=Trajectory |
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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