Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 6

Kind ghosts pitied the unhappy hunter and led him to the newly slain deer, that his children should not cry for food.

Who acts: Kind ghosts, children · What happens: pity, lead, not cry · To what, where: unhappy hunter, Patkasa, slain deer

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 (Kind ghosts, children), 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	Kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ghosts	amod
2	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pitied	nsubj
3	pitied	pity	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hunter	det
5	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hunter	amod
6	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pitied	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 led	cc
8	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pitied	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 led	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	14 deer	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 deer	det
12	newly	newly	ADV	_	14 deer	advmod
13	slain	slain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 deer	compound
14	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 led	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cry	punct
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 cry	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 children	nmod:poss
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 cry	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 cry	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 cry	advmod
21	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 led	parataxis
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 food	case
23	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cry	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pitied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pity	past	Kind ghosts	the unhappy hunter			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunter=Stimulus
2	lead	past	Kind ghosts not said here	Patkasa	the slain deer		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to deer=Destination
3	not cry speech: express	should	Patkasa's children			for food	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for food=Recipient

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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