Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 56
They danced and sang with merry light hearts.
Who acts: men · What happens: dance, sing
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 (men), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 danced | nsubj |
| 2 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sang | cc |
| 4 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 danced | conj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hearts | case |
| 6 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hearts | amod |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hearts | compound |
| 8 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sang | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | men = man | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | men = man not said here | with merry light hearts | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with heart=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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