Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 22
Running with clinched fists to the nearest teepees, she called: “Has any one seen my baby?
Who acts: sign · What happens: run, clinch, call, have, see · To what, where: one seen baby · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Toad and the Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sign), 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 | Running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 called | advcl |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 fists | case |
| 3 | clinched | clinch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fists | amod |
| 4 | fists | fist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Running | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 teepees | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 teepees | det |
| 7 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 teepees | amod |
| 8 | teepees | teepee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Running | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Running | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 called | nsubj |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Has | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Has | punct |
| 14 | Has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 called | ccomp |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 baby | det |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 baby | nummod |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 baby | amod |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 baby | nmod:poss |
| 19 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Has | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | gerund | sign not said here | with clinched fists; to the nearest teepees result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to teepee=Result | ||||
| 2 | clinch | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | call speech: ask | past | sign | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | my one seen baby | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | |||||
| 5 | see in a quote | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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