Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 36
A sudden clamor of high-pitched voices broke the deadly stillness of the dawn.
Who acts: sudden clamor · What happens: pitch, break, clamor · To what, where: deadly stillness, pitched voices
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sudden clamor), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 clamor | det |
| 2 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clamor | amod |
| 3 | clamor | clamor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broke | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 voices | case |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pitched | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 high | punct |
| 7 | pitched | pitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 voices | amod |
| 8 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 clamor | nmod |
| 9 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stillness | det |
| 11 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stillness | amod |
| 12 | stillness | stillness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broke | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 dawn | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dawn | det |
| 15 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stillness | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pitch | participle | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | break | past | a sudden clamor of pitched voices | the deadly stillness of the dawn | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stillness=Patient | ||||
| 3 | clamor | pitched voices | nom clamor «event 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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