Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 51

At once the drummers beat softly and slowly their drum while the chosen singers hummed together to find the common pitch.

Who acts: drummers, chosen singers · What happens: beat, choose, hum, find · To what, where: drum, common pitch

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 (drummers, chosen singers), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 once	case
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 beat	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 drummers	det
4	drummers	drummer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 beat	nsubj
5	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	softly	softly	ADV	_	5 beat	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 slowly	cc
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 softly	conj
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 drum	nmod:poss
10	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beat	obj
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 hummed	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 singers	det
13	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 singers	amod
14	singers	singer	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hummed	nsubj
15	hummed	hum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 beat	advcl
16	together	together	ADV	_	15 hummed	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 find	mark
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hummed	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pitch	det
20	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pitch	amod
21	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 find	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 beat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	beat	present	the drummers	drummers's drum	softly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme
2	choose	participle				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	hum	past	the chosen singers		together property	vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location
4	find	to-infinitive	the chosen singers not said here	the common pitch		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pitch=Topic

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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