Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 96

At once the unhappy father and mother cried out, “'Tis he, our boy!”

Who acts: unhappy father, Tis · What happens: cry out, boy · 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 (unhappy father, Tis), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 once	case
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 cried	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 father	det
4	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 father	amod
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mother	cc
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 father	conj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 cried	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 boy	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 boy	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 Tis	punct
13	Tis	Tis	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 boy	nsubj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 boy	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 boy	punct
16	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 boy	nmod:poss
17	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 boy	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry out speech: express	past	the unhappy father and mother						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	boy in a quote		Tis						tree rules

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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