Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 8
They reached the side of the stranger, but he did not heed them.
Who acts: runners, MAN · What happens: reach, not heed · To what, where: side, runners
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 (runners, MAN), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 side | det |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 stranger | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stranger | det |
| 7 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 side | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heed | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 heed | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heed | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 heed | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 heed | advmod |
| 13 | heed | heed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 reached | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | runners = runner | the side of the stranger | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent side=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not heed | past · do-support | MAN | runners = runner | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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