Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 11

“Let us take it to our wise chieftain,” at length they said; and the moment they started toward the camp ground the strange wood-child ceased to cry.

Who acts: you, us, men, moment · What happens: let, take, say, start, cease, cry · To what, where: us, length, voice, wise chieftain, strange wood child · 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 (you, us, men, moment), 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 chieftain	case
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 chieftain	nmod:poss
8	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 chieftain	amod
9	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 length	case
13	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Let	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 length	acl:relcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 started	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 started	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 moment	det
19	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 started	nsubj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 started	nsubj
21	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	conj
22	toward	toward	ADP	_	25 ground	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ground	det
24	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ground	compound
25	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 started	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 child	det
27	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 child	amod
28	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 child	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 wood	punct
30	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 started	obj
31	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 child	acl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 cry	mark
33	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 ceased	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	us	length		tree rules
2	take in a quote	infinitive	us not said here	voice	our wise chieftain		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to chieftain=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	men = man	length not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent length=Topic
4	start	past	the moment	the strange wood child		toward the camp ground	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Eventuality
5	cease	participle		the strange wood child not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	cry speech: express	to-infinitive					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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