Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 35
Still no one guessed what the Fish had mumbled!
Who acts: one · What happens: guess, mumble · To what, where: Fish
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Warlike Seven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 4 guessed | advmod |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guessed | nsubj |
| 4 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 guessed | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fish | det |
| 7 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mumbled | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 mumbled | aux |
| 9 | mumbled | mumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 guessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past | no one | still | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mumble speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the Fish | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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