Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 18
In a moment she came running out again, crying, “My son!
Who acts: willow · What happens: come, run out, cry
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Toad and the Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (willow), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 came | advcl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 running | compound:prt |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 running | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 crying | punct |
| 10 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 running | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 13 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crying | vocative |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | willow | moment | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run out | gerund | willow not said here | again | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | willow not said here | My son vocative | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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.
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