Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 65
The faint sound of murmuring people was in the air.
Who acts: faint sound · What happens: murmur, be · To what, where: people, air
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 (faint sound), 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 | 3 sound | det |
| 2 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sound | amod |
| 3 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 air | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 murmuring | mark |
| 5 | murmuring | murmur | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 sound | acl |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 murmuring | obj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 air | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 air | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | murmur speech: other | gerund | the faint sound not said here | people | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the faint sound | the air | 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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