Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 50
On the following morning at daybreak, peeped the people out of half-open door-flaps.
What happens: follow, peep · To what, where: people, open door flaps
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 peeped | obl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 daybreak | case |
| 6 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 8 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 peeped | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 flaps | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 flaps | case |
| 13 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 15 open | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 half | punct |
| 15 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 flaps | amod |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flaps | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 door | punct |
| 18 | flaps | flap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 peeped | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 peeped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | peep | past | the people | open door flaps | morning | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
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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