Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 51

“He is going to make a feast for some hungry tribe of men or beasts!” cried the hunters among themselves as they hastened away.

Who acts: buffalo, hunters · What happens: go, make, cry, hasten away · To what, where: feast · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (buffalo, hunters), 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	_	4 going	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 cried	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 feast	det
8	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 tribe	case
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 tribe	det
11	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tribe	amod
12	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 men	case
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tribe	nmod
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 beasts	cc
16	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 men	conj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
19	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hunters	det
21	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cried	obj
22	among	among	ADP	_	23 themselves	case
23	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 cried	obl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 hastened	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hastened	nsubj
26	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cried	advcl
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 hastened	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · progressive	buffalo			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make in a quote	to-infinitive	buffalo not said here	a feast	for some hungry tribe of men or beasts	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent feast=Product for tribe=Asset
3	cry speech: express	past	the hunters		among men = man	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hasten away	past	hunters = hunter		away property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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