Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 42
Every autumn with the hunters came the unhappy parents of the lost baby to search again for him.
Who acts: autumn · What happens: come, lose, search · To what, where: unhappy parents
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 (autumn), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 autumn | det |
| 2 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 hunters | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hunters | det |
| 5 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 autumn | nmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 parents | det |
| 8 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 parents | amod |
| 9 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 baby | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 baby | det |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 baby | amod |
| 13 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 parents | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 search | mark |
| 15 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | advcl |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 search | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 search | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | every autumn with the hunters | the unhappy parents of the lost baby | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location parent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | search | to-infinitive | every autumn with the hunters not said here | again | for child | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for he=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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