Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 6

Soon four strong men ran forth from the center wigwam toward the hillock, where sat the man with the long bow.

Who acts: four strong men · What happens: run, sit · To what, where: center wigwam, man

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 (four strong men), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 ran	advmod
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 men	nummod
3	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 men	amod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	forth	forth	ADV	_	5 ran	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 wigwam	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wigwam	det
9	center	center	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wigwam	compound
10	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl
11	toward	toward	ADP	_	13 hillock	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hillock	det
13	hillock	hillock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 sat	advmod
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 bow	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bow	det
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bow	amod
22	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	four strong men			the center wigwam		toward the hillock; forth, soon property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from wigwam=Trajectory
2	sit	past	four strong men not said here	the man				with the long bow	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=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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