Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 31
They met the returning husbands, who turned about and joined in the hunt for the missing child.
Who acts: tears, returning husbands · What happens: meet, return, turn about, join · To what, where: returning husbands
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 (tears, returning husbands), 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 met | nsubj |
| 2 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 husbands | det |
| 4 | returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 husbands | amod |
| 5 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 met | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 husbands | acl:relcl |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 turned | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 joined | cc |
| 11 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 turned | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hunt | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hunt | det |
| 14 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 joined | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 child | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 child | det |
| 17 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 child | amod |
| 18 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 joined | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | tears = tear | the returning husbands | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | return | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | turn about | past | the returning husbands | about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | join | past | the returning husbands not said here | for the missing child; in the hunt | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in hunt=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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