Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 49
Upon the arrival of the real avenger, Iktomi was released and chased away beyond the outer limits of the camp ground.
Who acts: real avenger · What happens: release, chase away, arrive · To what, where: Iktomi, outer limits
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 (real avenger), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 3 arrival | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 arrival | det |
| 3 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 released | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 avenger | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 avenger | det |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 avenger | amod |
| 7 | avenger | avenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrival | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrival | punct |
| 9 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 released | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 released | aux:pass |
| 11 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 chased | cc |
| 13 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 released | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 chased | advmod |
| 15 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 18 limits | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 limits | det |
| 17 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 limits | amod |
| 18 | limits | limit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 chased | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 ground | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ground | det |
| 21 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ground | compound |
| 22 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 limits | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 released | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | release | past · passive | Iktomi | upon the arrival of the real avenger | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source | ||||
| 2 | chase away | participle | the outer limits of the camp ground | away property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent beyond limit=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | arrive | the real avenger | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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