Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 8
While the hunters were questioning whether or no they should carry it home, the wee Indian baby kept up his little howl.
Who acts: hunters, wee Indian baby, ho · What happens: question, carry, keep up, howl · To what, where: babe, little howl
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 (hunters, wee Indian baby, ho), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 questioning | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hunters | det |
| 3 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 questioning | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 questioning | aux |
| 5 | questioning | question | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 baby | advcl |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 11 carry | mark |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 whether | fixed |
| 8 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 carry | discourse |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carry | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 carry | aux |
| 11 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 questioning | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carry | obj |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 carry | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 questioning | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 baby | det |
| 16 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 baby | amod |
| 17 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 baby | amod |
| 18 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 baby | acl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 kept | compound:prt |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 howl | nmod:poss |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 howl | amod |
| 23 | howl | howl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kept | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 baby | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | question speech: other | past · progressive | the hunters | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | carry | should | hunters = hunter | babe | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | keep up | participle | the wee Indian baby not said here | ho's little howl | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent howl=Theme | ||||
| 4 | howl | ho | nom howl «communication intransitive»: poss=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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