Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 54
Then the drumbeats subsided and faintly marked the rhythm of the singing.
Who acts: drumbeats · What happens: subside, mark · To what, where: rhythm
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 (drumbeats), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 subsided | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 drumbeats | det |
| 3 | drumbeats | drumbeat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 subsided | nsubj |
| 4 | subsided | subside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 marked | cc |
| 6 | faintly | faintly | ADV | _ | 7 marked | advmod |
| 7 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 subsided | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rhythm | det |
| 9 | rhythm | rhythm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marked | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 singing | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 singing | det |
| 12 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rhythm | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 subsided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | subside | past | the drumbeats | then | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mark | past | the drumbeats not said here | the rhythm of the singing | faintly property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent rhythm=Destination |
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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