Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 38
The noisy hum of voices was hushed.
Who acts: voices · What happens: hush, hum · To what, where: noisy hum
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 (voices), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hum | det |
| 2 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hum | amod |
| 3 | hum | hum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hushed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 voices | case |
| 5 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hum | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hushed | aux:pass |
| 7 | hushed | hush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hush | past · passive | the noisy hum of voices | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | hum | voices | nom hum «state intransitive»: of=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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