Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 27
“We have not seen your child!
Who acts: We · What happens: not see · To what, where: child
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 (We), 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 seen | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 seen | advmod |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 child | nmod:poss |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seen | obj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see in a quote | present · perfect | We | your child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
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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