Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 27
There was a momentary silence among the people while they listened to the ringing voice of the man walking in the center ground.
Who acts: momentary silence, people, man · What happens: be, listen, walk · To what, where: center ground
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 (momentary silence, people, man), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 silence | det |
| 4 | momentary | momentary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 silence | amod |
| 5 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 silence | nmod |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 listened | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 listened | nsubj |
| 11 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 14 | ringing | ringing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 voice | compound |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 listened | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 man | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 voice | nmod |
| 19 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 man | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 ground | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ground | det |
| 22 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ground | compound |
| 23 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 walking | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a momentary silence among the people | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | listen | past | people | to the ringing voice of the man | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to voice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | walk | gerund | the man not said here | the center ground | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ground=Trajectory |
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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