Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 87

Out in the open he whispered to the frightened young woman: “Iya, the camp-eater, has come in the guise of a babe.

Who acts: open, Iya · What happens: whisper, come · To what, where: frightened young woman, guise · 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 (open, Iya), 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	Out	out	ADV	_	4 open	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 open	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 open	det
4	open	open	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 whispered	nsubj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 whispered	nsubj
6	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 woman	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
9	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 whispered	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
14	Iya	Iya	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 come	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 eater	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 eater	det
17	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 eater	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 camp	punct
19	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Iya	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Iya	punct
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
22	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 whispered	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 guise	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 guise	det
25	guise	guise	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 babe	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 babe	det
28	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 guise	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	past	the open		the frightened young woman				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient
2	come in a quote	present · perfect	Iya			the guise of a babe			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in guise=Location

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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