---
title: “Oh ho, a wood-child!” cried the men, for they were hunting along th… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh ho, a wood-child!” cried the men, for they were hunting along the wooded river bottom where this babe was found. Who acts: ho, men. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iya, the Camp-eater, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/13/7/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Old Indian Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/) / [Iya, the Camp-eater](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/13/) / 7

# Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 7

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
“Oh ho, a wood-child!” cried the men, for they were hunting along the wooded river bottom where this babe was found.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** ho, men · **What happens:** cry, hunt, wood, find · **To what, where:** men, wooded river bottom, babe

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iya, the Camp-eater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ho, men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg338:13:7
# text = “Oh ho, a wood-child!” cried the men, for they were hunting along the wooded river bottom where this babe was found.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	ho	ho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
19	along	along	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	wooded	wood	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
22	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	babe	babe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | ho | the men |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 2 | **hunt** | past · progressive | men *= man* |  |  | the wooded river bottom |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent along bottom=Location |
| 3 | **wood** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | past · passive |  | this babe |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/13/6/)
- next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/13/8/)
- ↑ back to [Iya, the Camp-eater](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/13/)