Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 5
Suddenly exclaiming “Hunhe!” he dropped out of sight.
Who acts: Hunhe · What happens: exclaim, drop out · To what, where: Hunhe, sight
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 (Hunhe), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 2 exclaiming | advmod |
| 2 | exclaiming | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 dropped | advcl |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hunhe | punct |
| 4 | Hunhe | Hunhe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 exclaiming | obj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hunhe | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 exclaiming | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dropped | nsubj |
| 8 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 sight | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sight | case |
| 11 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dropped | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | gerund | Hunhe not said here | Hunhe | suddenly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hunhe=Topic | |||
| 2 | drop out | past | Hunhe | sight | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
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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