Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 61

When you see the black coals rise to the surface of the water, clap your hands and shout aloud, for soon after that sign I shall return to you with some tender meat.”

Who acts: you, black coals, I · What happens: see, rise, clap, shout, return · To what, where: surface, hands, you

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 (you, black coals, I), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 see	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rise	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 coals	det
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coals	amod
6	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rise	nsubj
7	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 surface	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 surface	det
10	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rise	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 surface	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 clap	punct
15	clap	clap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 rise	conj
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hands	nmod:poss
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 clap	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 shout	cc
19	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rise	conj
20	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	19 shout	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 return	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 soon	case
23	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 return	obl
24	after	after	ADP	_	26 sign	case
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 sign	det
26	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 return	obl
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 return	nsubj
28	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 return	aux
29	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 shout	parataxis
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 you	case
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 return	obl
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 meat	case
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 meat	det
34	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 meat	amod
35	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 return	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 rise	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 rise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	rise	present	the black coals			the surface of the water			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location
3	clap	infinitive	the black coals not said here	your hands					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
4	shout speech: express	present	the black coals not said here					aloud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	return	shall	I		you		after that sign	with some tender meat	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to you=Result

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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