Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 56
“It was the voice of a weeping woman you heard.
Who acts: toad, you · What happens: be, hear · To what, where: voice, weeping woman
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 (toad, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 voice | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 voice | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 voice | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 voice | det |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 woman | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 8 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 woman | compound |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 voice | nmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 woman | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 voice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | toad | the voice | of a weeping woman | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hear in a quote | past | you | a weeping woman not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |
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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