Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 26
Hinnu!” exclaimed the women, rising to their feet and rushing out of their wigwams.
Who acts: Hinnu · What happens: exclaim, rise, rush out · To what, where: women, feet, wigwams
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 (Hinnu), 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 | Hinnu | Hinnu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hinnu | punct |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hinnu | punct |
| 4 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 women | det |
| 6 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 exclaimed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rising | punct |
| 8 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 exclaimed | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 feet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rising | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rushing | cc |
| 13 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 rising | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 wigwams | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 wigwams | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wigwams | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wigwams | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rushing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | Hinnu | the women | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | ||||
| 2 | rise in a quote | gerund | Hinnu not said here | women's feet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | rush out in a quote | gerund | Hinnu not said here | women's wigwams | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wigwam=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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