Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 51

There again in the midst of the large camp ground was a man in beaded buckskins.

Who acts: midst · What happens: be, bead · To what, where: man, beaded buckskins

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 (midst), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 again	expl
2	again	again	ADV	_	5 midst	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 midst	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 midst	det
5	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 man	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ground	det
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ground	amod
9	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ground	compound
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 midst	nmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 man	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 buckskins	case
15	beaded	bead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 buckskins	amod
16	buckskins	buckskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 man	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the midst of the large camp ground	a man		beaded buckskins			tree rules
2	bead	participle							vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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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