Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 19
Soon he came to a teepee from whence loud wailing voices broke.
Who acts: MANSTIN, loud wailing voices · What happens: come, break · To what, where: teepee
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 (MANSTIN, loud wailing voices), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 teepee | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 teepee | det |
| 6 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 broke | case |
| 8 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 broke | advmod |
| 9 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 voices | amod |
| 10 | wailing | wailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 voices | compound |
| 11 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 broke | nsubj |
| 12 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | MANSTIN | a teepee | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to teepee=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | break | past | loud wailing voices | whence property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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