Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 93

Then moving closer to the woman, he whispered: “If he wakes now, he will swallow the whole tribe with one hideous gulp!

Who acts: Iya · What happens: move, whisper, wake, swallow · To what, where: whole tribe · 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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 moving	advmod
2	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 whispered	advcl
3	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 moving	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 woman	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 closer	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 moving	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 whispered	nsubj
9	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 swallow	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 swallow	punct
12	If	if	SCONJ	_	14 wakes	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wakes	nsubj
14	wakes	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 swallow	advcl
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 wakes	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wakes	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 swallow	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 swallow	aux
19	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 whispered	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tribe	det
21	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tribe	amod
22	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 swallow	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 gulp	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 gulp	nummod
25	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 gulp	amod
26	gulp	gulp	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 swallow	obl
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	move	gerund	Iya not said here		then	close property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	whisper speech: express	past	Iya				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wake a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Iya		now		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	swallow in a quote	future	Iya	the whole tribe		with one hideous gulp	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribe=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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