Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 95

Scarcely had he spoken when the sound of voices was audible on the outer edge of the forest.

Who acts: sound · What happens: speak, be · To what, where: Scarcely, outer edge · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sound), 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	Scarcely	Scarcely	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spoken	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoken	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoken	nsubj
4	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 audible	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sound	det
7	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 audible	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 voices	case
9	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sound	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 audible	cop
11	audible	audible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spoken	xcomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 edge	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 edge	det
14	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 edge	amod
15	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 audible	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 forest	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 forest	det
18	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 edge	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		Scarcely					tree rules
2	is	past	the sound of voices			the outer edge of the forest		audible property	tree rules

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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