Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 85

The singing of men and women, the beating of the drum, the rattling of deer-hoofs strung like bells on a string, these were the sounds they heard.

Who acts: these, bells, deer hoofs · What happens: string, be, hear, sing, beat, rattle · To what, where: deer hoofs, string, sounds, men, drum

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 (these, bells, deer hoofs), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 singing	det
2	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 men	case
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 singing	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 women	cc
6	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 men	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 beating	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beating	det
9	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 singing	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 drum	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 drum	det
12	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beating	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rattling	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rattling	det
15	rattling	rattling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 singing	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 hoofs	case
17	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hoofs	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 deer	punct
19	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 rattling	nmod
20	strung	string	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 hoofs	acl
21	like	like	ADP	_	22 bells	case
22	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 strung	obl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 string	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 string	det
25	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 strung	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sounds	punct
27	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 sounds	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sounds	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sounds	det
30	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 singing	appos
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 heard	nsubj
32	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sounds	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 singing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	string	participle		deer hoofs not said here	a string	like bells	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on string=Destination
2	is a	past	these	the sounds			tree rules
3	hear	past	bells = bell	the sounds not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
4	sing			men and women			nom singing «act transitive»: of=patient
5	beat			the drum			nom beating «act transitive»: of=patient
6	rattle		deer hoofs				nom rattling «event intransitive»: of=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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