Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 104

“Hin! hin!” he grunted and growled.

Who acts: sun · What happens: grunt, growl · To what, where: Hin hin

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 (sun), 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	_	4 hin	punct
2	Hin	hin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hin	compound
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hin	punct
4	hin	hin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grunted	obl
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 hin	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 hin	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grunted	nsubj
8	grunted	grunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 growled	cc
10	growled	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grunted	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grunted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grunt	past	sun	Hin hin					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	growl	past	sun not said here						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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