Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 66

Now, in her great desire to keep the stolen boy awhile longer, she ventured to cry as the Dakota woman does.

Who acts: pair, Dakota woman · What happens: keep, steal, venture, cry, do, desire · To what, where: stolen boy

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 (pair, Dakota woman), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 desire	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 desire	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 desire	nmod:poss
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 desire	amod
6	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 keep	mark
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 desire	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
10	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 boy	amod
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	obj
12	awhile	awhile	ADV	_	13 longer	advmod
13	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 keep	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ventured	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ventured	nsubj
16	ventured	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 desire	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 cry	mark
18	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 ventured	xcomp
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 does	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 woman	det
21	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 woman	compound
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 does	nsubj
23	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 cry	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 desire	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		the stolen boy	long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme
2	steal	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	venture	past	pair			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	pair not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	do	present	the Dakota woman			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	desire		pair			nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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