Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 53

“There!” said Iktomi in a loud whisper as he gathered his little ones on the bank.

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: say, gather · To what, where: loud whisper, little ones, bank · 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 (Iktomi), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 said	expl
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 There	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 There	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 whisper	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 whisper	det
9	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 whisper	amod
10	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 gathered	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gathered	nsubj
13	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 ones	nmod:poss
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ones	amod
16	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 gathered	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 bank	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bank	det
19	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gathered	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Iktomi			a loud whisper; there			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in whisper=Manner
2	gather	past	Iktomi	Iktomi's little ones		the bank			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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