Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 25

“A feast! a dance for the naming of the chieftain's grandchild!” cried he in a loud voice to the village people.

Who acts: feast, dance · What happens: dance, cry, name · To what, where: village people, loud voice, grandchild · 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 (feast, dance), 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	_	6 dance	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 feast	det
3	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dance	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 dance	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dance	det
6	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cried	nsubj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 naming	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 naming	det
9	naming	naming	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dance	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 grandchild	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chieftain	det
12	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grandchild	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 chieftain	case
14	grandchild	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 naming	nmod
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 dance	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 dance	punct
17	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cried	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 voice	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 voice	det
21	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 voice	amod
22	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cried	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 people	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 people	det
25	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 people	compound
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cried	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	dance in a quote		a feast				for the naming of the chieftain's grandchild	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	a dance		the village people	a loud voice		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient
3	name in a quote			the chieftain's grandchild				nom naming «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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