Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 82

“Why so unlike other babes!” she cried within her heart as she slipped him gently from her lap to the ground.

Who acts: sound · What happens: cry, slip · To what, where: child

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), 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	_	10 cried	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 so	advmod
3	so	so	ADV	_	10 cried	advmod
4	unlike	unlike	ADP	_	6 babes	case
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 babes	amod
6	babes	babe	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cried	obl
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 babes	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 babes	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	within	within	ADP	_	13 heart	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 heart	nmod:poss
13	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obl
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 slipped	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 slipped	nsubj
16	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	advcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 slipped	obj
18	gently	gently	ADV	_	16 slipped	advmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 lap	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 lap	nmod:poss
21	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 slipped	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 ground	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ground	det
24	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lap	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	sound					unlike other babes; within sound's heart	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	slip	past	sound	child				from sound's lap to the ground; gently property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient from lap=Co-Patient

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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