Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 12
In a laughing voice he hummed an Indian mother's lullaby, “A-boo!
Who acts: giant · What happens: laugh, hum · To what, where: lullaby, laughing voice
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 voice | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 voice | det |
| 3 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 voice | amod |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hummed | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hummed | nsubj |
| 6 | hummed | hum | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mother | det |
| 8 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mother | amod |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lullaby | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 mother | case |
| 11 | lullaby | lullaby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hummed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 boo | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 boo | punct |
| 14 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 boo | det |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 A | punct |
| 16 | boo | boo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hummed | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 hummed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | hum | past | giant | a Indian mother's lullaby | a laughing voice | a boo obl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lullaby=Topic |
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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