Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 76
Thus rushing out into the open, he listened for strange sounds.
Who acts: chieftain · What happens: rush out, listen
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 (chieftain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 rushing | advmod |
| 2 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 open | csubj |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 rushing | compound:prt |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 open | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 open | det |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 listened | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 listened | nsubj |
| 9 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 open | parataxis |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 sounds | case |
| 11 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sounds | amod |
| 12 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 listened | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush out | gerund | thus property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | listen | past | chieftain | for strange sounds | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for sound=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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