Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 29

All were glad to hear of the chieftain's grandson.

Who acts: All · What happens: be, hear

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 (All), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 glad	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 glad	cop
3	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hear	mark
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 glad	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 grandson	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chieftain	det
8	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grandson	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 chieftain	case
10	grandson	grandson	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	All					glad property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	All not said here					of the chieftain's grandson	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of grandson=Stimulus

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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