Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, sentence 26

They were feasting and dancing; they were singing and laughing--those funny little furry fellows.

Who acts: mice · What happens: feast, dance, sing, laugh · To what, where: those

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Dance in a Buffalo Skull. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mice), 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	3 feasting	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 feasting	aux
3	feasting	feast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dancing	cc
5	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 feasting	conj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 singing	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 singing	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 singing	aux
9	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 feasting	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 laughing	cc
11	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 singing	conj
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 those	punct
13	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 singing	obl
14	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fellows	amod
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fellows	amod
16	furry	furry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fellows	amod
17	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 those	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feasting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	feast	past · progressive	mice = mouse		vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dance	gerund	mice = mouse not said here		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sing speech: express	past · progressive	mice = mouse	those	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	laugh	gerund	mice = mouse not said here		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/11/26/