Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 45
A little wild boy stopped his play among the tall grasses.
Who acts: little wild boy, boy · What happens: stop, play · To what, where: play
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 (little wild boy, boy), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boy | amod |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boy | amod |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stopped | nsubj |
| 5 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 play | nmod:poss |
| 7 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stopped | obj |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 11 grasses | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 grasses | det |
| 10 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grasses | amod |
| 11 | grasses | grass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stopped | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | a little wild boy | boy's play | among the tall grasses | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector play=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | play | boy | nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=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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