Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 28
Then broke forth a rippling, laughing babble among the cone-shaped teepees.
What happens: break, laugh, shape · To what, where: rippling, babble
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 broke | advmod |
| 2 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 2 broke | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rippling | det |
| 5 | rippling | rippling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 broke | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughing | punct |
| 7 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 broke | advcl |
| 8 | babble | babble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laughing | obj |
| 9 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 teepees | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 teepees | det |
| 11 | cone | cone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shaped | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 shaped | punct |
| 13 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 teepees | amod |
| 14 | teepees | teepee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 laughing | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | a rippling | then | forth property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rippling=Patient | |||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | babble | among the shaped teepees | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babble=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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