Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 47

“Be still!” said father Iktomi to his children.

Who acts: father · What happens: be, say · To what, where: children · 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 (father), 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	_	2 Be	punct
2	Be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 Be	advmod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Be	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Be	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 father	appos
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 children	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 children	nmod:poss
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	infinitive					still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	father		father's children				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient clause=Topic

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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