Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 48
For a half-day he lay there, the laughing-stock of the people.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: lie, stock · To what, where: laughing stock, people
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 (Iktomi), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 3 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 day | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 half | punct |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lay | nsubj |
| 7 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lay | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stock | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stock | det |
| 11 | laughing | laughing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stock | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 laughing | punct |
| 13 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 people | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stock | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Iktomi | the laughing stock of the people | there | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | stock | the people | nom stock «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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