Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 69
They shouted and hooted with great glee.
Who acts: coals · What happens: shout, hoot
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Turtle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coals), 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 shouted | nsubj |
| 2 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 hooted | cc |
| 4 | hooted | hoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shouted | conj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 glee | case |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 glee | amod |
| 7 | glee | glee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hooted | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | coals = coal | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hoot | past | coals = coal not said here | with great glee | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with glee=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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