Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 64
Then hither and thither ran singing men and women making a great feast for the avenger.
What happens: run, sing, make · To what, where: men, great feast
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 hither | advmod |
| 2 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 5 ran | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ran | cc |
| 4 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 5 ran | advmod |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 ran | advcl |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 singing | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 women | cc |
| 9 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 men | conj |
| 10 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 singing | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 feast | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feast | amod |
| 13 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 making | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 avenger | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 avenger | det |
| 16 | avenger | avenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 making | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | hither, thither property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | men and women | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | a great feast | for the avenger | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent feast=Product for avenger=Asset |
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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