Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 79

“Oh! the sound of many voices comes up from the earth about me!” exclaimed the young mother.

Who acts: sound, young mother · What happens: come up, exclaim · To what, where: earth · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sound, young mother), 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	_	9 comes	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 sound	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sound	det
5	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 voices	case
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 voices	amod
8	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sound	nmod
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADV	_	9 comes	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 earth	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 earth	det
13	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	obl
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 exclaimed	obl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 me	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 me	punct
18	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 earth	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mother	det
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mother	amod
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 exclaimed	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up in a quote	present	the sound of many voices			the earth			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from earth=Initial_Location
2	exclaim speech: express	past	the young mother	the earth not said here				about me	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent earth=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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