Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 95

“I saw among the tall reeds a black-haired boy at play!” shouted he to the people.

Who acts: I · What happens: see, reed, shout · To what, where: hair, people · 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 (I), 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	_	3 saw	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reeds	advcl
4	among	among	ADP	_	6 tall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tall	det
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saw	xcomp
7	reeds	reed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 boy	det
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boy	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 black	punct
11	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boy	amod
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shouted	nsubj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 play	case
14	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boy	nmod
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 boy	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 boy	punct
17	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reeds	parataxis
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 shouted	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 people	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 people	det
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 shouted	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 reeds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	past	I			tall property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	reed in a quote	present					tree rules
3	shout speech: express	past		hair	the people		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to people=Recipient

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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