Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 33

Lifting him to his feet, he said: “Now it is my turn to try the high jump!”

Who acts: Patkasa, disappointment · What happens: lift, say, be, try · To what, where: Patkasa, feet, turn, high jump · 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, disappointment), 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	Lifting	lift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Lifting	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 feet	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feet	nmod:poss
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lifting	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lifting	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 turn	punct
11	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 turn	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 turn	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 turn	cop
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 turn	nmod:poss
15	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 try	mark
17	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 turn	acl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 jump	det
19	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 jump	amod
20	jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 try	obj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 turn	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lift	gerund	Patkasa not said here	Patkasa	Patkasa's feet		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to foot=Destination
2	say speech: express	past	Patkasa				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	disappointment	my turn		now	tree rules
4	try in a quote	to-infinitive	Patkasa not said here	the high jump			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Eventuality

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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