Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 151
“Hin-hin-hin!” moaned Iktomi, when the wolves had scampered off.
Who acts: hin hin · What happens: moan, scamper off · To what, where: Iktomi, wolves
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Ducks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hin hin), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 hin | punct |
| 2 | Hin | hin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hin | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hin | punct |
| 4 | hin | hin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hin | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 hin | punct |
| 6 | hin | hin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 moaned | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 hin | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 hin | punct |
| 9 | moaned | moan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 moaned | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 scampered | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 scampered | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wolves | det |
| 14 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 scampered | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 scampered | aux |
| 16 | scampered | scamper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 moaned | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 scampered | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 moaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | moan | past | hin hin | Iktomi | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent iktomi=Theme | ||||
| 2 | scamper off | past · perfect · passive | the wolves | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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