Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, sentence 38

“A cat! a cat!” cried other mice as they scrambled out of holes both large and snug.

Who acts: other mice, mice · What happens: cry, scramble · To what, where: holes

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 (other mice, mice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg338:957): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 cat	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	ccomp
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 cat	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cat	parataxis
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 cat	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 cat	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mice	amod
11	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cried	nsubj
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 scrambled	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 scrambled	nsubj
14	scrambled	scramble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	advcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	17 holes	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 out	fixed
17	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 scrambled	obl
18	both	both	CCONJ	_	19 large	cc:preconj
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 holes	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 snug	cc
21	snug	snug	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 large	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	other mice						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	scramble	past	mice = mouse			holes			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out hole=Trajectory

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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