Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 7

“Oh ho, a wood-child!” cried the men, for they were hunting along the wooded river bottom where this babe was found.

Who acts: ho, men · What happens: cry, hunt, wood, find · To what, where: men, wooded river bottom, babe

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 (ho, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 ho	discourse
3	ho	ho	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 child	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 child	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 wood	punct
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ho	appos
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 child	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 child	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 men	det
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cried	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hunting	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 hunting	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hunting	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hunting	aux
18	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 cried	advcl
19	along	along	ADP	_	23 bottom	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bottom	det
21	wooded	wood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 bottom	amod
22	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bottom	compound
23	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hunting	obl
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 found	advmod
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 babe	det
26	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 found	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 found	aux:pass
28	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 bottom	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	ho	the men		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
2	hunt	past · progressive	men = man		the wooded river bottom	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent along bottom=Location
3	wood	participle				tree rules
4	find	past · passive		this babe		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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