Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 94

“This is he!” murmured the hunter to himself as he ran to his wigwam.

Who acts: This, boy · What happens: be, murmur, run · To what, where: boy, hunter, wigwam · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (This, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 murmured	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 he	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 he	cop
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 murmured	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 he	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 he	punct
7	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hunter	det
9	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 murmured	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 himself	case
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 murmured	obl
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 ran	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ran	nsubj
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 murmured	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 wigwam	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wigwam	nmod:poss
17	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ran	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 murmured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	This	boy			tree rules
2	murmur speech: other	past	boy	the hunter	boy		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hunter=Topic to himself=Recipient
3	run	past	boy			boy's wigwam	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to wigwam=Destination

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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