Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 40
The crier came forward to greet the chieftain, then bent attentively over the small babe, listening to the words of the chieftain.
Who acts: crier · What happens: come forward, greet, bend, listen, word · To what, where: chieftain, small babe
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 (crier), 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 | 2 crier | det |
| 2 | crier | crier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 greet | mark |
| 6 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chieftain | det |
| 8 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 greet | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bent | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 bent | advmod |
| 11 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 chieftain | acl:relcl |
| 12 | attentively | attentively | ADV | _ | 11 bent | advmod |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 babe | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 babe | det |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 babe | amod |
| 16 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bent | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 listening | punct |
| 18 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 bent | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 words | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 words | det |
| 21 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 listening | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 chieftain | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 chieftain | det |
| 24 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 words | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come forward | past | the crier | forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | to-infinitive | the crier not said here | the chieftain | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chieftain=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bend | participle | the chieftain not said here | the small babe | then | attentively property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over babe=Location | ||
| 4 | listen | gerund | to the words of the chieftain | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme | |||||
| 5 | word | the chieftain | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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