Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 84
Placing an ear close to the open baby mouth, the chieftain and his wife, each in turn heard the voices of a great camp.
Who acts: each · What happens: place, hear · To what, where: ear, voices
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 (each), 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 | Placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 heard | advcl |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ear | det |
| 3 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Placing | obj |
| 4 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Placing | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 mouth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mouth | det |
| 7 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mouth | amod |
| 8 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mouth | compound |
| 9 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 close | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 chieftain | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chieftain | det |
| 12 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mouth | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wife | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mouth | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Placing | punct |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 turn | case |
| 19 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 each | nmod |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 voices | det |
| 22 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 heard | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 camp | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 camp | det |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 camp | amod |
| 26 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 voices | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | gerund | each not said here | a ear | close property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | |||
| 2 | hear | past | each | the voices of a great camp | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
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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