Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 1

FROM the tall grass came the voice of a crying babe.

Who acts: tall grass · What happens: come, cry

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iya, the Camp-eater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tall grass), 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	FROM	from	ADP	_	4 grass	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grass	det
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grass	amod
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 voice	det
7	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 babe	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 babe	det
10	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 babe	amod
11	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 voice	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the tall grass						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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