Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 39
Not a tinkling of a metal fringe broke the silence.
Who acts: tinkling · What happens: break · To what, where: silence
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 (tinkling), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 tinkling | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tinkling | det |
| 3 | tinkling | tinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 broke | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fringe | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fringe | det |
| 6 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fringe | compound |
| 7 | fringe | fringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tinkling | nmod |
| 8 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 silence | det |
| 10 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 broke | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | a tinkling of a metal fringe | the silence | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer silence=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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