Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 106
“Ha! ha!” laughed all the village people to see Iya made foolish with anger.
Who acts: Iya · What happens: laugh, see, make · To what, where: village people · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Iya), 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 laughed | punct |
| 2 | Ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 7 laughed | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ha | punct |
| 4 | ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 2 Ha | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ha | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ha | punct |
| 7 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 people | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 people | compound |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 laughed | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 laughed | advcl |
| 14 | Iya | Iya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | ccomp |
| 16 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 made | xcomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 anger | case |
| 18 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | all village people | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | make | past | Iya | with anger; foolish property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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