Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 35
During this happening, a woman on horseback halted her pony at the chieftain's teepee.
Who acts: woman · What happens: happen, halt · To what, where: pony, teepee
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 (woman), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 happening | obl |
| 3 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 halted | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 happening | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 halted | nsubj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 horseback | case |
| 8 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 woman | nmod |
| 9 | halted | halt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pony | nmod:poss |
| 11 | pony | pony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 halted | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 teepee | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chieftain | det |
| 14 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 teepee | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 chieftain | case |
| 16 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 halted | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 halted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | gerund | a woman on horseback not said here | during this | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | halt | past | a woman on horseback | woman's pony | the chieftain's teepee | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector pony=Eventuality |
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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