Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 64
Amid the quiet of the night, her ear heard the far-off hum of many voices.
Who acts: ear, many voices · What happens: hear, hum · To what, where: far hum
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 (ear, many voices), 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 | Amid | amid | ADP | _ | 3 quiet | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 quiet | det |
| 3 | quiet | quiet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quiet | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 quiet | punct |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ear | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hum | det |
| 12 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hum | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 off | punct |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 far | compound:prt |
| 15 | hum | hum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 voices | case |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 voices | amod |
| 18 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hum | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | quiet's ear | the far hum of many voices | amid the quiet of the night | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hum=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | hum | many voices | nom hum «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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