Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 18
“Oh, I fear I cannot do it!” cried Patkasa, rubbing his funny, thick palms together.
Who acts: Patkasa · What happens: fear, not do, cry, rub · To what, where: hair, funny thick palms · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Turtle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Patkasa), 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 | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 fear | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 fear | nsubj |
| 5 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 cried | advcl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 do | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fear | ccomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 fear | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fear | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Patkasa | Patkasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rubbing | punct |
| 16 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 cried | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 palms | nmod:poss |
| 18 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 palms | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 funny | punct |
| 20 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 palms | amod |
| 21 | palms | palm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rubbing | obj |
| 22 | together | together | ADV | _ | 16 rubbing | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear in a quote | present | Patkasa | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | can | Patkasa | hair | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Patkasa | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | rub | gerund | Patkasa not said here | Patkasa's funny thick palms | together property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent palm=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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