Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 58

Late into the night the air of the camp ground was alive with the laughing voices of women and the singing in unison of young men.

Who acts: air · What happens: be

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 (air), 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	Late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 alive	advmod
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 night	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 alive	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 alive	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ground	det
9	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ground	compound
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 air	nmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 alive	cop
12	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 voices	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 voices	det
15	laughing	laughing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 voices	compound
16	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 alive	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 women	case
18	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 voices	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 singing	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 singing	det
21	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 voices	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 unison	case
23	unison	unison	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 singing	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 men	case
25	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 men	amod
26	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 unison	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 alive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the air of the camp ground				night	with the laughing voices of women and the singing in unison of young men; alive, late property	tree rules

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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