Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 97

So quietly had the people folded their wigwams and bundled their tent poles that they slipped away unheard by the sleeping Iya babe.

Who acts: people · What happens: have, fold, bundle, slip away · To what, where: wigwams, tent poles

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 (people), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
2	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 folded	nsubj
6	folded	fold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	ccomp
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wigwams	nmod:poss
8	wigwams	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 folded	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bundled	cc
10	bundled	bundle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 poles	nmod:poss
12	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 poles	compound
13	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bundled	obj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 slipped	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 slipped	nsubj
16	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bundled	advcl
17	away	away	ADV	_	18 unheard	advmod
18	unheard	unheard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 slipped	xcomp
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 sleeping	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sleeping	det
21	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 unheard	obl
22	Iya	Iya	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 babe	compound
23	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sleeping	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past			quietly property	tree rules
2	fold	past	the people	people's wigwams		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wigwam=Patient
3	bundle	past		people's tent poles		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=Patient
4	slip away	past	people		unheard property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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