Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 5
He was waiting for the chieftain's men to spy him.
Who acts: face · What happens: wait, spy · To what, where: face
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 (face), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 waiting | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waiting | aux |
| 3 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 men | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chieftain | det |
| 6 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 men | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 chieftain | case |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 waiting | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 spy | mark |
| 10 | spy | spy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 waiting | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spy | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · progressive | face | for the chieftain's men | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spy | to-infinitive | face not said here | face | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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