Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 53
The singers burst forth in a lively tune.
Who acts: singers · What happens: burst · To what, where: lively tune
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 singers | det |
| 2 | singers | singer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 burst | nsubj |
| 3 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 burst | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 tune | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tune | det |
| 7 | lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tune | amod |
| 8 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burst | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | the singers | a lively tune | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tune=Location |
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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