Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 6

He was scarce over the great high hills when he heard the shrieking of a human child.

Who acts: MANSTIN · What happens: be, hear, shriek · To what, where: great high hills, shrieking, human child

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scarce	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scarce	cop
3	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	8 hills	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hills	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hills	amod
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hills	amod
8	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scarce	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 heard	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scarce	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shrieking	det
13	shrieking	shrieking	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 child	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 child	det
16	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 child	amod
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shrieking	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 scarce	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	MANSTIN		the great high hills	scarce property	tree rules
2	hear	past	MANSTIN	the shrieking of a human child			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shrieking=Stimulus
3	shriek			a human child			nom shrieking «communication transitive»: of=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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